BYD closes French electric bus factory
The Chinese bus manufacturer BYD is closing its electric bus factory in Allonne, near Beauvais in Hauts-de-France, after only four years – the demand for Chinese electric buses fell far short of expectations. Only a third of the 80,000 m2 and 10 million euro factory building was utilized – only ten employees were engaged in production, and only about 30 vehicles have rolled off the assembly line since 2018, including a dozen city buses: four for Beauvais, three for Dunkirk, two for Orléans. Although the electric buses were assembled in Allonne, the vehicle parts were manufactured in China.
Initially, the Chinese bus manufacturer had expected a multiple of that – in 2018, BYD assumed a production volume of 200 electric buses per year (including double-deckers and coaches).
According to the French trade magazine Bus&Car Connexion, BYD still intends to remain active in the French market.
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