First vehicle rolls off the line at BYD Ningxia NEV base

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- BYD's new energy bus manufacturing base located at Wangyuan Industrial Park in Yinchuan City saw its first complete vehicle officially roll off the assembly line on September 18, according to local media. This is also the first all-electric bus that was independently made in Ningxia.

BYD signed an agreement with Yinchuan municipal government on April last year to build an electric bus base in Yongning County, which reportedly started construction on June 7, 2017. Less than 16 months later, such main facilities as the bus car factory, the all-electric bus manufacturing factory, the painting workshop, the testing workshop as well as the administration building have been completed. Moreover, 500 units of all-electric buses bought by Yinchuan Public Transport Co.,Ltd have been deployed across the city.

According to Wangjie, vice president of BYD, the company's Yinchuan NEV base will take Ningxia as the foothold and radiate businesses to surrounding markets, such as Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang. The planned capacity per shift is 1,000 all-electric buses on an annual basis. Besides, the Yinchuan base will strive to achieve a yearly output value exceeding RMB 1.5 billion. The automaker will deepen the cooperation with Yinchuan City onward in such areas as the PV and railway transportation, etc.