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BYD making huge profits on sales of electric buses in 70 countries worldwide
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@amosbatto3051 9 месяцев назад

BYD is selling those buses at an incredible discount compared to other bus manufacturers. In the US, a typical diesel 40 foot urban bus costs about $500,000. The city of Austin, Texas ordered nearly 200 electric urban buses in 2021 from Proterra and New Flyer and it paid $915,000 for the 40 foot models. I can't find BYD's prices for the US, but here is what the BYD USA website says about their buses: "The BYD electric buses are emissions-free and cost-effective, being 70% cheaper compared to conventional diesel buses. The cost per kilometer is about 0.1 US dollars for electric buses, while that of a traditional bus rises to about 0.4 US dollars per kilometer. They come with large-capacity batteries that provide a range of 250 km and take just 5 hours to be fully charged."

@ronmorrell9809 9 месяцев назад

Indianapolis got BYD buses. Needed to install a bunch of extra charging stations. Albuquerque tried some, but also found the range to be too much shorter than advertised. Frames and brakes had problems. Albuquerque exited the contract and is happy with Protera buses. A few years ago, Los Angeles Times ran a negative article. I don't know what makes some sites happy and others fail. Guess that's why multiple brands exist.

@xinyiquan666 9 месяцев назад

byd has factory in US

@rozonoemi9374 9 месяцев назад

Protera is now Bankrupt@@ronmorrell9809

@seokjin3000 5 месяцев назад

@@ronmorrell9809Proterra went bankrupt late last year. 😢 Volvo bought its battery business

@Alexpktang 2 месяца назад

US Proterra Bus Company is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is now being sold

@CanadianNarh 9 месяцев назад

Most buses have predictable routes with stops at a bus station at either end. You don't need a large battery because you can schedule charging at the end of the route or while the bus is stopped at the station. If you check out the average bus route in smaller cities, to travel from one end to the other is less than 50km before stopping at a station. It doesn't take long to charge a battery with a supercharger to get back the 50km. The best part is that during rush hour you can do 2 to 4 circuits of the route without charging because it is rated for 250km. Then charge the battery for longer when passenger load is lighter.

@gerryh6385 9 месяцев назад

Buses on urban routes also spend a lot of time sitting in traffic (electric vehicles don't tick over at 0mph) and benefit tremendously from regenerative braking. Diesel powered vehicles really suck for these routes along with the pollution.

@willeisinga2089 9 месяцев назад

In Groningen Nederland we have 200 BYD Busses for Years Now. Supergood, Silent, Clean Transport. Its Normal in Groningen. Charge with Solar Park Power in Groningen. Cheap Clean Local Energy for Local Transport in Groningen. Thank You BYD.❤👍. And Sam Thank You. Nobody Talks about it in the Media. Its Normal. 🙂☀️🎶❤️

@raincoast9010 6 месяцев назад

solar energy is clean, what a joke!

@timpanfans2945 5 месяцев назад

@@raincoast9010why

@UCMpDwp7VEfKXRH3NyAW7kuj 3 месяца назад

national security threat 🧐

@Emilien-hy3sy 9 месяцев назад

BYD make fantastic buses, they deserve their success

@sparkysho-ze7nm 9 месяцев назад

Accurate

@kebeleteeek4227 6 месяцев назад

Electris buses have been doomed project every where ..

@lawrenceasero2207 9 месяцев назад

I found this on line: "Diesel buses are the most common type of bus in the United States, and they cost around $550,000 per vehicle (according to a 2016 study)." It would seem the BYD buses are a bargain. How can you be astounded by the cost if you don't compare to a conventional bus. Throw in reduced fuel and maintenance cost, presumably, and the purchase of an electric bus should be a no brainer for a municipality.

@ab-tf5fl 9 месяцев назад

A lot of the economics will depend on whether the chargers can continue to be used after the buses reach their end of life. Ideally, you want chargers that are universally compatible, across all bus brands, far into the future. Even better would be a universal equipment, allowing bus rapid chargers to be co-located with car rapid chargers and share a common power supply. What you don't want is proprietary chargers that lock you into one particular brand of busses, using a standard that might be obsolete by the time that those buses need to be replaced.

@monipenny408 2 месяца назад

LOL this is a U$ spnsored prop channel masquerading a EV channel.

@terryward1422 9 месяцев назад

BYD provides a full suite of technologies to make the transition to electric buses. That makes it easy for any city to switch to electric buses and I think that is part of BYD's success in the bus market.

@blackknight4996 8 месяцев назад

Very knowledgeable and insightful comment....

@chillfluencer 9 месяцев назад

Just mid October BYD signed a deal to provide 2,000 K9UD e-buses for Uzbekistan’s municipality Tashkent alone.

@jamesmccomb6217 9 месяцев назад

Viking, I work in engineering for a local Australian bus manufacturer, and am currently in Dandenong doing development on our EV buses, I'm here for the rest of this week and I'd love to sit down and fill you in on the bus sector and the EVs being built for it. Hit me up 🙂

@wietzepost 9 месяцев назад

Cape Town buys BYD electric buses too. 5 Full size buses every month.

@DanielASchaeffer 9 месяцев назад

Bus speeds are really low and with regeneration they are super efficient

@eclecticcyclist 9 месяцев назад

Also EVs use hardly any power when they're stopped and bus stops are frequent in inner city areas. In a 12 hr day an inner city bus might only cover 200 ml.

@AdlerMow 9 месяцев назад

He is only saying that he expected more for the price. Not something unreasonable.

@user-rd6rg7mp7h 9 месяцев назад

BYD CHINESE OWNED? our military is mandated to make these non combat vehicles electric. What American company is stepping up here?

@eclecticcyclist 9 месяцев назад

@@AdlerMow Buses are hand built to order. Even fossil fuel buses are expensive.

@eclecticcyclist 9 месяцев назад

@@user-rd6rg7mp7h Proterra of California, GreenPower Motor of California, South Electric Vehicles of Missouri and many more.

@eclecticcyclist 9 месяцев назад

BYD has been mass producing buses since 2010 so as well as making the batteries themslves they also have a first mover advantage.

@MrGMawson2438 9 месяцев назад

Great work BYD

@chillfluencer 9 месяцев назад

Sam, you are talking about the smallest bus, the K5 which has 97 kwh. The K6 already has 144 kWh. And something more common like the K9UD has 422 kWh.

@user-mj9tr3ym5t 9 месяцев назад

😂 as usual half baked sam videos

@OverlandExpedition 9 месяцев назад

Electric buses make sense as they produce the most pollution in cities. When glasgow replaced the ICE buses pollution dropped but when the introduced ULEZ for car nothing changed.

@peterkogl1329 8 месяцев назад

Congratulations BYD. What is good for humanity is good for BYD. BYD is pointing that out.

@BikeNutt1970 9 месяцев назад

Rode on a BYD double-decker bus today (London). They're great. Many London buses are now BYD electric.

@markthomasson5077 9 месяцев назад

It hurts that UK has good bus manufacturers, yet where are the electric buses

@BikeNutt1970 9 месяцев назад

@@markthomasson5077 I know, right. A bit like the contract to produce UK passports being handed the French!!! 🤔

@timoliver8940 9 месяцев назад

There’s a bus maker in Falkirk in Central Scotland who cannot keep up with production of electric buses so somebody has to fill the void and that’s BYD

@jameshack485 9 месяцев назад

NYC paid $1.4 million per bus for 60 foot all electric articulated buses in 2020. I think they paid $600,000 for 40 foot diesel buses same year. So $250,000 for a BYD is a steal of a price

@hongfanzhan8260 9 месяцев назад

I have just come back from Shanghai and Hangzhou in China and I find that all buses are E buses ,serves in these two cities ,especially Shanghai with the population over 20 million at least .

@blackknight4996 8 месяцев назад

26 million Shanghai

@MrDisasterboy 9 месяцев назад

Volgren in Australia puts together both BYD & Volvo based EVs. The BYD based bus has 324kWH battery for its 250km range. I wonder if your sources were incorrect about the Japanese bus delivery battery sizes?

@user-mj9tr3ym5t 9 месяцев назад

sam is semi correct he is referring to the 軽バス meaning mini buses specific only to the japan market that has an lfp battery of 105kwh gross and usable 92kwh so yeah he is sorta right 😅

@erik5820 9 месяцев назад

By the end of this year all* of the city buses (the red ones) in Oslo, the capital of Norway, will be battery electric. Think (not 100% sure) all of them are byd's. The commuter buses (the green ones) are still diesel. * one exeption : they keep 3 of the old ICE buses because one of the bridges to one of the islands has some limitations that the EV-buses cant meet.

@drdewott9154 7 месяцев назад

Oslo does have a lot of BYD buses but they do also have a lot from other manufacturers. Notably they have a lot from a polish company named Solaris, from a Dutch company named VDL, and even some Mercedes buses. Plus I know they have a big order in the works from a Dutch company named "Ebusco". Most of the oldest electric buses in the city are BYD's.

@zsedcify 9 месяцев назад

Sam, contrary to your perspective that BYD has the global e-bus market largely to itself, if you'd visited BusWorld Europe in Brussels a few months ago, you'd have seen stands from 30-40 bus OEM's hailing from Turkey, China, Europe, Korea and beyond . . it's a highly competitive space, held back only by conservative and cozy customers (transit authorities) that are taking their sweet time analyzing the revolutionary switch from diesel to electric fuel. Soon, diesel buses will be a thing of the past.

@rozonoemi9374 9 месяцев назад

BYD is still # 1 in E-Buses

@wheelofcheese100 9 месяцев назад

I despise stinky/loud diesel, so good. The sooner they become a thing of the past the better 😊.

@deepseer 9 месяцев назад

@@rozonoemi9374 Not really. Have you heard of another Chinese company, Yutong?

@Harrythehun 9 месяцев назад

How many busses can be delivered to customers? The most common challenge is the lack of ability to deliver the busses.

@archstanton5973 8 месяцев назад

@@rozonoemi9374 *:* _"BYD is still # 1 in E-Buses"_ *NO* Yutong Bus is the largest sellers of EV buses. If you don't (want to) believe just look it up.

@coolblu101 9 месяцев назад

They operate in cities and must stop and start all day long. Imagine how much regen they are capable of every day.

@chillfluencer 9 месяцев назад

Yutong to provide 12,000 e-buses in Lagos, Nigeria, in cooperation with energy company OCEL

@mirvine1 9 месяцев назад

In the early days of Tesla I used to troll Elon Musk telling him Tesla should do buses. Never got a reply.

@simonpannett8810 9 месяцев назад

All buses are expensive. A diesel red Double Decker is over £500,000!!!

@stevencole7331 9 месяцев назад

I see California awarded byd a contract for school buses . Think about those kids not breathing diesel fumes . I think California has a billion dollars of investment to spend .

@abdx7777 9 месяцев назад

BYD busses in Australia has 400kw battery on it , 90kw doesn’t make sense for me unless if these busses are hybrid

@fredfrond6148 9 месяцев назад

Maintenance savings, fuel savings, no particulate emissions…. Cities gonna go for electric buses. BYD just has to beat the next highest bidder.

@Alexpktang 2 месяца назад

No oil change too....big saving in operation cost !

@acmefixer1 9 месяцев назад

There is a BYD bus factory here in Southern California, in the desert. That's a cheaper location as far as wages are concerned but California still has higher than average wages, so buses cost more to build. It stands to reason that a typical metro bus doesn't travel far each day, so long distances aren't necessary. And after riding behind buses, it's a real blessing to not have to breathe thos horrible diesel fumes. 😬😡

@Alexpktang 2 месяца назад

BYD Lancaster California quietly building electric buses for over 15 years, last thing I heard was they had over 950 high paid union workers working there.

@xushenxin 9 месяцев назад

It is the same price as same size coach bus. BYD bus is on the cheaper side of buses.

@leiflillandt1488 9 месяцев назад

Maybe because they make the expensive batteries themselves.

@user-fo9rh4ej1o 9 месяцев назад

I thought that Yutong ,another Chinese bus company was the biggest ev bus manufacturer in the world. According to Wikipedia this is so.They sell a lot of buses around the world too.

@drdewott9154 7 месяцев назад

Yeah BYD and Yutong are often neck and neck as 2 of the worlds biggest bus builders. In some cases BYD takes majority market share like Sweden or Japan, or in other cases Yutong does like in Denmark or Mexico.

@Alexpktang 2 месяца назад

@@drdewott9154 I think Yutong target most of the third world countries and they don't make cars.

@mnhsty 8 месяцев назад

I guessed $400K. It’s relatively low volume and not much automation.

@davidlee9493 9 месяцев назад

This is part of the promised greener economy. The future is now.

@fast-trackhack6637 9 месяцев назад

This is probably the biggest (and easiest) opportunity to transform the transportation industry, with a self-sustaining business model. Even upgrading the battery pack for more range is inexpensive compared to a consumer vehicle. The maintenance is close to zero, so money saved will go towards battery upgrades-replacement after 500,000 to 1 million miles of use. We need a follow-up video on the ROI / Total Cost of Ownership. At a first glance, this is the best use of EV technology, from a profit perspective, green planet perspective, and transportation industry perspective.

@Moigle1 9 месяцев назад

That's incredibly cheap for a bus. Public utility vehicles are built to a much higher standard than consumer vehicles. Meeting all the regulatory requirements ain't cheap.

@carlcadogan4510 9 месяцев назад

Sam thank you for including my beautiful island of Barbados in this video. Currently one of the first in the Caribbean to have electric buses. Also the most advanced charging network and EV vehicle adoption. Still have much progress to be made though.

@sparkysho-ze7nm 9 месяцев назад

Generating problems or distribution?

@gzcwnk 9 месяцев назад

Buses are built by hand and have always been costly.

@i6power30 9 месяцев назад

Buses are more efficient than small passenger cars. They don't need to accelerate fast, just slow and steady. Also given its predicatable routes and always return to the same charging stations, it's much easier to have barely enough battery range, therefore maximally utilize its batteries, unlike many passenger cars batteries sits idle most of the time parked, and 50% of their batteries barely get used a couple times a year. I would say building electric buses, taxis, delivery vehicles have far more impact on improving environment than passenger cars dollar for dollar.

@Alexpktang 2 месяца назад

Correct, city buses usually not operate at express way speed, as the electric power consumption rate is the highest.

@hughbrommage387 9 месяцев назад

Fantastic price, and margin. Should motivate competition

@waynethefridgemanosborne8984 9 месяцев назад

Now that is a affordable camper conversion . Have to keep a lookout for one lol

@geirvinje2556 9 месяцев назад

You have a roof charger in the end stations. But, first buses. Like 5-8 years ago, they where cold in the winter. When it's -10c to -15c you need a warm bus. But, I think they have fixed that, now. I hope that there will be 800 km >1000 volt buses. They are building chargers for large trucks in Oslo. But, still there are a lack 1000kw. The companies are waiting for this, to save money on diesel. And, the state are hoping to sell more diesel abroad to fill up the oil fond 🙂👍

@임진영 6 месяцев назад

찬성합니다.

@Z3nonD3mon 9 месяцев назад

I am getting the distinct impression that Sam has sold his BYD shares. His last few videos on BYD have been quite negative. (Expensive Buses, rusty cars, etc, etc)

@MrGMawson2438 9 месяцев назад

Cheers mate

@djkalisouthmusic Месяц назад

over 150+ in-operation already in kenya public buses really smooth ride and quiet

@healthygrowth7760 9 месяцев назад

Tesla still trying to make the truck......😂

@terryward1422 9 месяцев назад

Most buses run on time routes so the battery charge can be predicted and managed. It you were to put inductive charging stations at the bus terminals they could be charged while waiting to start their next run.

@Beatles4Sale. 9 месяцев назад

In Maryland Thomas Built Buses is leasing to our state. They are part of Daimler. MD has the most aggressive law for school buses in the U.S. that require only zero emission buses starting in 2025. BUT there is more involved here than busing school buses. They are putting in the chargers. They are training school bus staff. By leasing, reps from Montgomery county say the cost is budget neutral with ICE buses. I’m sure the cost of EV school buses will come down.

@arikuusela6716 7 месяцев назад

I've seen alot of BYD busses in Finland. We have alot of problems at cold weather with electric busses and diesels (they just won't start.) It's also a issue, that on harsh winter days we don't have enough electricity. Yesterday electricity peaked 235 c/kWh and the normal is close to 5-15c/kWh. If you warmed up your electric sauna yesterday, it might have cost you 100€ which is crazy!

@drdewott9154 7 месяцев назад

Yeah. Where I'm from in Denmark BYD have never been as popular as they are in Sweden and Finland. But we do have a lot of buses from their competitor Yutong here in Denmark, and they seemingly work just fine regardless of the weather conditions. I wonder if thats also the case up in Finland.

@rboz4637 9 месяцев назад

Hydrogen bus running about $1.25m in us.

@Truthstelling 9 месяцев назад

So much customization in a bus, $246,000 is pretty cheap in my opinion

@NackDSP 9 месяцев назад

Bus customers are very sophisticated and likely specify exactly the battery size they want as they know the route the bus will travel. In Japan it is so population dense most city busses likely don't go very far at all.

@ab-tf5fl 9 месяцев назад

They should. But, as long as there's lack of competition in the electric bus market, manufacturers don't really have a reason to offer that. After all, if shorter ranges than the customer would like forces the customer to buy more buses to compensate, that simply means more sales for the bus manufacturer. In many cases, zero-emission mandates means that BYD isn't even competing against diesel buses. They get to simply name their price and specs, and the transit agency has no choice but to pay up. The only way this problem gets fixed is if more companies enter the electric bus business.

@sparkysho-ze7nm 9 месяцев назад

Because th bus s don’t communicate

@larryevans6739 9 месяцев назад

In NYC, the average speed for a bus is 8 mph. Maybe 64 miles per shift. With overhead or wireless inductive charging at stops (which BYD also offers) or charging at lunch breaks, the range is more than enough.

@jonevansauthor 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, you might want to look up normal buses. They're not cheap - they're not made in massive volume.

@scottw4208 9 месяцев назад

Electric buses just makes sense. Good job BYD!!!

@DanielASchaeffer 9 месяцев назад

Super frustrating to watch them run rings around Tesla

@elmohead 9 месяцев назад

Nah it's a good thing.

@rw2382 Месяц назад

China gave BYD buses to Burkino Faso as a gift in support of Gen. Traore's efforts to create a green society and help get people to work.

@durinok 9 месяцев назад

Diesel (or natural gas) buses aren’t cheap either. I’ve looked at some available online data and found costs generally around $250,000 at the very low end up to $600,000 per bus cited. In Prague, I found one exception to this range at 168,000 euros. So if BYD is able to match the lowest end of this price range already AND provide this range, hats off to them. I’ve previously researched the costs of electric school buses in the U.S. and found a citation for $250,000, which brought the $500M to $1B federal program to help school districts convert their bus fleets to electric into perspective.

@MrGMawson2438 9 месяцев назад

Afternoon mate

@boballen9095 9 месяцев назад

I am surprised noone has mentioned two things that are specific (but not limited to) bpublic transport via Bus: 1. Know route, hence known energy expenditure for a given route, 2. Regenerative braking. Does that help explain it Sam?

@lettybastien4624 2 месяца назад

Forget Eletric. Bring on the Turbines!

@MonkeyKing_1 9 месяцев назад

even S korea, Japon n Endia just received their buses fr byd

@juandiegoceleminmojica8790 9 месяцев назад

The audio was a bit odd, any idea what it could be? Anyways, I feel like the japanese buses are an anomaly. IIRC, the buses bought here in Bogota from BYD had 350kWh batteries or so, however, I have to check because that was a couple years ago and I don't really remember.

@avdp9095 8 месяцев назад

We have hundreds of Byd busses in the Netherlands, complete disaster.. Unreliable, catching fire.... chauffeurs don't want to drive these busses.....

@datianlongan5567 9 месяцев назад

Most school districts want electric bus, which is perfect for the short morning & afternoon student runs. However funding is an issue because BYD bus is not qualified for the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act.

@mnhsty 8 месяцев назад

Because the Infrastructure Act is fake and corrupt.

@kburke1965 7 месяцев назад

Low speed boosts range. Busses mostly go 40kmh.

@philiptaylor7902 9 месяцев назад

The average urban bus travels around 130 miles per day, so huge batteries aren’t necessary (if efficiency is say 1.5 miles per km that’s less than 100KWh). Why fit a larger battery if it’s not required?

@ab-tf5fl 9 месяцев назад

Winter. In order to have enough range to maintain service on the coldest possible winter day, you need a battery that is way oversized for an ordinary summer day.

@leiflillandt1488 9 месяцев назад

@@ab-tf5flWhy not bolt on an auxiliary battery for the coldest winter months? In a bus this would easily done.

@philiptaylor7902 9 месяцев назад

@@ab-tf5fl That’s true, but it’s still not going to require a ridiculously large battery. And buses do have opportunities to charge during the day (10 minutes whilst parked up at the station could add another 20 or so miles of range at 100Kw/h) I have even seen it suggested that buses would benefit from inductive charging -they could pick up a quick burst every time they stop to pick up passengers.

@terryward1422 9 месяцев назад

You can expect the BYD electric bus and deliver van sales to increase over the next five years as cities try to reduce their carbon foot print and improve air quality.

@rorymccallum5629 9 месяцев назад

$157,000 for a Toyota Rosa which is a 25 seater.

@brendanpells912 9 месяцев назад

Sounds like their customers should be asking for price cuts.

@eclipticpeak8452 4 месяца назад

You aren't factoring in all the labor needed to assemble such a large vehicle. All the welders, the painters, the fabricators, electricians for the wiring. They need many more welds than an average car, many more body panels which need to be flattened and made perfectly smooth. There is a lot more WORK to putting these busses together outside of the additional cost of materials.

@eclipticpeak8452 2 месяца назад

But with that being said, they barely pay their workers and mark my words, there will be a protest within a month.

@eleetgroupvideo 9 месяцев назад

A European EV bus is in the $ millions

@garyanderson-smith9049 9 месяцев назад

US$246,000 for a bus is quite cheap. Much cheaper than a ICE Bus.

@PD55_ 9 месяцев назад

With a bigger battery capacity this would make a great RV motor home. Zero emissions. Diesel avg price USA right now is $4.20/gal, diesel bus mpg is 8-12 mpg with lung-destroying pollution. RV sales are dying in part because average people can't afford the diesel costs, especially retirees. BYD, where can I buy a bus? Let's start putting superchargers in trailer parks and RV campgrounds!

@leiflillandt1488 9 месяцев назад

4.20 USD per gallon sounds very cheap! In the Nordic countries diesel prices are about 2 euro per litre which makes about 8 USD per gallon... And the net incomes aren't twice of the ones in USA...

@josdesouza Месяц назад

I wish more electric busses were employed in BRT systems.

@nicholasglade4572 9 месяцев назад

Wonder why BYD stock, BYDDF, is not taking off. Has been flat for so long.

@passby8070 9 месяцев назад

I wish we have those buses in Sydney

@harrygroundwater2590 9 месяцев назад

We are starting to get electric buses. They are built here though

@terryward1422 9 месяцев назад

BYD opened a bus manufacturing plant in New Market Ontario in 2013 with just one hundred employees. Today that plant employs over 700 workers. In 2019 I has the chance to talk to the city fleet manager and the maintenance manager and as them why our city was not buying electric buses. They both knew of the potential cost savings of electric buses over ICE buses but the cities executive was not willing to switch to electric buses because of EV FUD. These people drank the anti-EV Kool-Aid. That included things like the buses were too expensive, the range was too short and buses would not work in the cold.

@yourlogicalnightmare1014 8 месяцев назад

Buffet had it right. BYD is 100x bigger than Tezz and is the world leader in EVs

@qinby1182 9 месяцев назад

In regards to the battery size... A LOT of power goes to "combat" air resistance and that is VERY speed dependent, buses (most do) drive in cities i.e, slow speeds. Then it is a lot of "start / Stop" and with regenerative breaking you recoup some. Would imagine if the buses were tested as cars the driving range would be less but as is, city buses, the range is good enough and I DO IMAGINE if you want a larger pack you could get it, BYD "custom build" tour buses as well.

@nickmcconnell1291 9 месяцев назад

Agree totally. Also the small pack size means quick fast DC recharge times. 30 minutes then back out there.

@Blockiee 4 месяца назад

The BYD site says: Up to 422 kWh battery pack.

@julesmarwell8023 Месяц назад

HOW MANY passengers are going to be INCINERATED BEFORE THEY GET BANNED ?????

@melleblanc971 9 месяцев назад

Tesla is very much lagging big time on commercial vehicles and busses.....and these are big profit areas with little competition. They could easily have a bus division focused on central design/engineering/development, and local production with much smaller factories near end users around the world. Ship in battery packs and key electronic/suspension parts...source as much as possible locally. Tailor build models to local needs. Build assembly plants near big markets....Brazil, Mexico, Mid east, India, Turkey, Europe, US, Australia, Canada....unlimited potential in growing markets.

@andyfreeze4072 9 месяцев назад

they only have two arms and two legs. They are expanding as fast as possible as is. they cant be everywhere yesterday, hahahahaha

@mgman6851 9 месяцев назад

Smart move on BYD’s part to take on the bus market . It seems logical that the buses don’t need huge range or batteries as they are operated in cities and likely charged again at depots overnight. This is the complete opposite for Tesla semi which needed much engineering and costs to get the range it requires. So obviously buses are low lying fruit with healthy profits .

@jasonwhiteley3612 9 месяцев назад

I would suggest the battery are much larger

@reeceagland1980 9 месяцев назад

Really, you will pay over $150k for similar size diesel bus, so price, to me seems quite reasonable.

@John-yx6yz 25 дней назад

The one thing I find unusually absent from this video is the comparable price for an equivalent diesel bus, the alternative cost. From the comments below it seems the price tag of a BYD bus is still about a 50% discount to that of equivalent diesel alternatives.

@simon-c2y 9 месяцев назад

Are the Sydney buses BYD? I talked to a bus driver of one the other day, apparently they just drive them all day and return to the depot at the end of the day, no recharge mid-shift. But he wasn't all that talkative, to some rando I guess. I'd actually love to know more. No one says anything about these buses Sam, I did hear the programme is 17 years behind schedule. And in the meantime the diesel buses are getting older and worse. Also I agree it is weird that if the battery is barely bigger than that in a normal car, that the bus should cost so much, and yet even so there would be no competition? What! Money to be made, where is the Australian coach builder pairing up with the battery producer and undercutting this? Another thing: if you can really drive a full size bus on a route all day and the battery is the size of a large electric SUV - would that not be THE answer to urban transportation. If true, and I don't say anything about how likely that is, but if true: great, exciting news.

@andyfreeze4072 9 месяцев назад

maybe they calculated 90kw is relatively cheap to recharge, making a sizeable advantage over deisel refuels. 30E vs 180E for deisel. Thats a saving of 150E per shift. Assuming a shift revolves around 200km. Not hard to understand in money terms

@larryevans6739 9 месяцев назад

BYD also offers overhead and inductive charging, which can be done without leaving the bus to plug in (potentially, while moving).

@rogerzimmerman304 14 дней назад

$240k sounds very cheap for a big bus like that, I am not sure why Sam thinks that is expensive, it is massive. Amazing range for such a small battery, but likely because it is for slow urban driving, with regen braking.

@vincewhite5087 8 месяцев назад

Edmonton bought Proterra (now owned by Volvo), paid $1m per us cnd.

@andders2477 9 месяцев назад

Wikipedia: Byd busses >10m: 300-600 kWh battery. Not the same as Byd Seal.

@ab-tf5fl 9 месяцев назад

I'm curious how the BYD buses handle heating in the winter, as I can see the energy requirements to keep the passenger cabin heated being quite significant due to the huge cabin area, poor thermal insulation, and doors constantly opening to let passengers on and off. In mild climates, this is probably a non-issue. But, in cold climates, I can easily envision battery buses suffering a huge range penalty in the winter, possibly to the tune of 50% or more. One potential remedy for this is to use a hybrid approach where the bus carries a tank of propane, in addition to the battery, using the battery to move the bus and the propane tank to heat it. Which still results in some fossil fuel consumption, but still far less of it than running a diesel bus. Another solution is to simply equip the bus with bigger batteries so that the winter range loss doesn't matter, but then, the batteries will be massively oversized during the summer. But, one way or another, this problem does need to be solved.

@georgepelton5645 9 месяцев назад

It is common for electric buses to have diesel heaters, but electric heat is also an option. The latter will cut winter range, of course.

@larryevans6739 9 месяцев назад

As transit busses stop regularly at specific locations by nature, they can utilize overhead and inductive charging... BYD offers both, in addition to fast charging, that could be done at lunch breaks. This reduces the need for larger batteries, even in colder climates.

@kellerhorton Месяц назад

great range is due to low speed and regenerative braking in urban areas.

@user-pz2ms8qn3c 4 месяца назад

i live close to Tel aviv . we heave here many BYD E buses . they are apearently cheaper then european ICE buses :)

@terryward1422 9 месяцев назад

A fleet of buses need a lot of electricity to top up their batteries. You need grid storage devices to buffer the load to the grid. BYD also makes grid storage devices to do that.

@yourlogicalnightmare1014 8 месяцев назад

Tezzluh learned from the best and is playing catchup

@nedywest71 8 месяцев назад

All London's old double deckers are replaced by BYD's new BEV double deckers which are nicer and quieter. Other towns in UK follow up same steps. Do not know how on long run the maintenance of those will be handled or when the batteries come to end of life and will need replacement. Only time will tell.

@chillfluencer 9 месяцев назад

The biggest EV bus maker globally still is Yutong. Sam: "Not many companies make electric buses." Wikipedia: "Hold my beer - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electric_bus_makers "

@user-br9oi2sh7o 4 месяца назад

How about the largest Taxi operator in Indonesia also started using BYD EV in its fleet last year?

@rickyzmkuo 2 месяца назад

Buses may not need super big battery packs, coz the buses can be frequently charged when it's parked in the terminals. It's more efficient that way coz you don't have to carry heavy batteries around.

@416to613 7 месяцев назад

There's a reason their buses are getting poor reputation with transit agencies. Just look at Toronto. The TTC did a head-to-head long term fleet comparison between BYD, Proterra and New Flyer. Their trial after years rated New Flyer as the most reliable.