DELIVERIES / ORDERS
BYD USA
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Frederick County TransIT
Frederick County, Maryland
BYD (Build Your Dreams) announced it has delivered three
U.S.-built battery-electric K7M buses to Transit Services
of Frederick County, Maryland (TransIT). The narrow
streets of Frederick, which are lined with historic brick
buildings, a notable region of colonial United States, are
a perfect fit for BYD’s quiet zero-emission 30-foot K7M
battery electric buses. Already, TransIT drivers prefer the
BYD buses to navigate the tree-lined byways of Frederick.
TransIT provides public transit, paratransit and commuter
services/employer outreach information throughout
Frederick County, serving medical, employment, education
and shopping centers.
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Link Transit
Wenatchee, Washington
BYD announced it has completed the delivery of 10
battery-electric K9S buses to Link Transit in Wenatchee,
Washington, a milestone for the company has production
ramps up following a temporary plant closure in Mid-March
from the COVID-19 pandemic. The final two buses of the
order were recently delivered, joining the eight others that
had been delivered prior to the COVID-19 shutdown. The
buses were the first to be completed by BYD after reopening
its plant. The K9S 35-ft electric bus, manufactured at BYD’s
factory in Lancaster, California, has a range of up to 215
miles, seats up to 32, and can be fully charged in three to
four hours.
Motor Coach Industries (MCI)
Alexander Dennis Limited / BYD Europe
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Transport Clément Bégin
Sainte-Germaine-Boule, Western Quebec, Canada
Transport Clément Bégin purchased nine new J4500s to
shuttle mining personnel nearly 100 miles to a remote site
in Northern Quebec seven days a week. These are the very
first new MCI coaches for the leading charter and school
bus company, named after the founder, and now in its third
generation of family leadership and 61st year. Built with a semimonocoque
low-corrosion stainless steel body, the MCI J4500
is ideally suited to long-distance employee shuttles. Offering a
modern, spacious interior and best-in-class legroom, Clément
Bégin’s new coaches have a 52-passenger seating capacity.
The model’s lighter weight, next-generation Cummins X12
engine, new for model year 2020, improves fuel economy and
extends the J4500’s low total cost of operation even further.
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National Express West Midlands
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD Europe jointly
announced that their electric vehicle partnership, the UK’s
leading electric bus producer, has supplied the first of 29 BYD
ADL Enviro400EV double deckers to National Express West
Midlands, where they are charged entirely by renewable
energy and utilise a stationery battery system to balance the
load on the electricity grid. The 10.9-meter long buses are built
to National Express’s Platinum standard, offering extra legroom
for 65 seated passengers as well as USB chargers, free Wi-Fi
and other amenities. An advanced heat pump system ensures
that saloon heating power is supplied efficiently from the main
batteries without undue impact on operational range.
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