www.chinabuses.org: BYD Motors kicked off the 2014 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Houston this week with a new product-unveiling ceremony and over 300 in attendance. The ceremony began with an invitation to attendees to “throw off the  shackles  of  a  single-fueled  system – an  electric  platform  is ‘adaptable’ – it  becomes  cleaner  as  you  do, through  the use  of  renewable  wind,  water  and  solar renewable power generation,” stated Vice President Micheal Austin as he challenged the status-quo of those promoting fossil fuels as a clean alternative. “The consequences of our choices today will leave a legacy that our children will live with, both environmentally and economically, for decades into the future.”

 
The  world's  largest  battery-electric  vehicle  is  a  60-foot  articulated  bus  that  carries  120
passengers over 170 miles per single electric charge.

With  the  showmanship  one  only  expects  at  an  international  auto  show, BYD opened  the  ceremony  with  an impressive display of lights, music, curtain-drops and a crowd of hundreds to witness America's first electric articulated bus, fittingly named “The Lancaster” after the city in California where it was designed and manufactured.  Lancaster  Vice  Mayor  Marvin  Crist  proclaimed,  "BYD  Motors  is  an  American  manufacturing company residing in an industrial zone in the city of Lancaster – they have now hired over 60 Americans to build  clean-tech  Electric  Buses and  Energy  Modules  out  of  Lancaster,  California." The Lancaster  eBus,  a break-through, 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus, can drive 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers,  was  in  development  for  almost  two  years,  and  is  an  example  of  how  committed  BYD  is  to  the American Rapid Transit markets. "BYD's mission is to create safer and more environmentally-friendly battery technologies.  This  has  resulted  in  the  BYD  Iron-Phosphate  Battery,  a  fire-safe,  completely  recyclable, and incredibly long-cycle technology -- the foundation of BYD's Electric buses. These buses run entirely off battery power lasting up to 24 hours on a single charge, with single off-peak charging time of 2-4 hours," said BYD
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Motors Fleet Sales Vice President, Brendan Riley. “No additional generation capacity is needed to be built to charge our buses at night since the grid is only 40% utilized.”  
 

Also  on  display  at  the  BYD  Exhibit  was  a  40-foot,  Battery-electric  Transit  bus  from  Antelope  Valley  Transit Authority. AVTA Board Chairman Norm Hickling boasted that the 40-foot bus on the Expo show floor was the only bus, “that drove over 1500 zero-emission  miles  from  Los  Angeles  all  the  way  to  Houston  for  the  Expo under its own power.” AVTA tested BYD buses in the hottest part of the Lancaster summer in August with full air-conditioning running and with 5250 pounds of sand bags to simulate a full passenger load. He further stated, “We drove nearly 100 miles more than BYD advertises -- up  to  250  miles  per  bus  charge  and  we  covered almost 750 miles in 24 hours! We are very impressed with BYD technology and quality.” The most interesting news about this 1500 mile journey to Texas is that it was completed for “$200 in electricity--the lowest cost trip to the show of all buses.”

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