Los Angeles orders its first battery electrics from BYD

摘要

Metro, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is to buy up to 25 eBus 12m battery electric transit buses from Chinese manufacturer BYD. As part of a $30million (£20million) clean-air bus technology project, it will establish whether they match up to its rigorous operating conditions, in much the same way as Transport for London has secured funding to test six BYD buses. Los Angeles will initially purchase five buses. After 'an initial period of testing and evaluation', it may then purchase up to 20 more. It also will seek bids to convert six existing petrol electric hybrid buses to a 'super low emission bus' standard. Metro already operates 2,238 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses on 183 routes.