10 On June 6th, during the National Day, a China company set up a factory in California to produce electric vehicles, which attracted the appearance of important delegations from the Democratic Party of the United States, * * * and the party and government, and attracted great attention from the whole city. This company is BYD, and the factory to be put into production in Lancaster, a desert town, will focus on the production of electric buses.

BYD has worked hard for this factory for nearly five years, with a total investment of 230 million US dollars. The whole project is divided into three phases. The first phase was officially put into production on 20 13, and this is the completion of the third phase, which indicates that the factory has been fully put into production.

The whole factory covers an area of 4 1000 square meters, which is the first American bus factory and the largest pure electric bus factory in North China.

According to statistics, the whole factory will provide 65,438+0,500 jobs and give priority to recruiting local residents. Lancaster is a small town with a permanent population of only 1.6 million, so that one person in every 2 1 will work in BYD's factory, which responds to the current policy thinking of revitalizing local employment and manufacturing in the United States.

BYD said that the production capacity of Lancaster factory can guarantee to produce 65,438+0,500 electric buses every year. According to the data, there are about 4,000 buses in operation in the United States, of which 80% of the market share of pure electric buses has been occupied by BYD.

From the perspective of production capacity, BYD factory can not only meet the market demand for the replacement of electric buses in the United States in the next few years, but also have the capacity to export to neighboring countries.