BYD: Road to Dominance of Electric Vehicle/Transport

[Aepsilons]

I think there are no BYD purchased by New York yet. BYD supplied some buses for range testing in Manhattan traffic. I think Denver bought some for their airport

I heard Chicago might be getting it.

 

[yusheng]

From the recently reports, maybe the "Toilet cover" is a good item for Chinese tourists, or coupled with cameras and other three two, but can one say Japanese household appliance industry has not resigned the world market? China now can do many things that Japan cannot do and will not speak out, let us have a look the Japanese has significantly lagged behind:

High-speed Rail transportation equipment,
Communication equipment (China accounted for two in the world's five largest ),
Intelligent mobile phone (who is now with the Japanese mobile phone?)
Grid (China have the best UHV and smart grid technology),
4G and the upcoming 5G Technology (Chinese independent 4G standard TD-LTE, catch up with the west, China has 5G international standards),
Hydropower(the world's largest hydropower China has 800000 kilowatt water turbine manufacturing technology)
Thermal power ( the most efficient ultra supercritical thermal power units is in China),
The 4th generation nuclear power (Shandong Rongcheng Shidao Bay, the four generation nuclear power has been opened),
Construction (the world's largest dam, the largest high-speed rail network; the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge),
Stealth fighter aircraft and large transport aircraft,
Coal to olefins tech matured ( using coal instead of oil as a chemical raw material, first turn the coal into methanol, and made ethylene and propylene from methanol, China has already industrialized this tech before any country),
Quantum communication,
High performance computer.
Beidou Positioning System.
Shale gas mining, (Chinese is the only one outside North America who realized shale gas commercial exploitation)
......

Ningbo Heyuan company 1800000 tons of methanol to olefins project

There is a detail many people have forgotten or never knew, during the rescue of Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japane depends on Chinese Sany Heavy Industry long arm cement pump to complete the project. why Japane even can not make a such tool with its industrial power?

Made in China

During Japanese "lost twenty years", its economy stagnated, its industry shrunk , new tech stoped , under such circumstance Japanese elected their war-pro leaders.

You have made your bed , so you must lie in it. Poor Japanese

 

[empirefighter]

From the recently reports, maybe the "Toilet cover" is a good item for Chinese tourists, or coupled with cameras and other three two, but can one say Japanese household appliance industry has not resigned the world market? China now can do many things that Japan cannot do and will not speak out, let us have a look the Japanese has significantly lagged behind:

High-speed Rail transportation equipment,
Communication equipment (China accounted for two in the world's five largest ),
Intelligent mobile phone (who is now with the Japanese mobile phone?)
Grid (China have the best UHV and smart grid technology),
4G and the upcoming 5G Technology (Chinese independent 4G standard TD-LTE, catch up with the west, China has 5G international standards),
Hydropower(the world's largest hydropower China has 800000 kilowatt water turbine manufacturing technology)
Thermal power ( the most efficient ultra supercritical thermal power units is in China),
The 4th generation nuclear power (Shandong Rongcheng Shidao Bay, the four generation nuclear power has been opened),
Construction (the world's largest dam, the largest high-speed rail network; the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge),
Stealth fighter aircraft and large transport aircraft,
Coal to olefins tech matured ( using coal instead of oil as a chemical raw material, first turn the coal into methanol, and made ethylene and propylene from methanol, China has already industrialized this tech before any country),
Quantum communication,
High performance computer.
Beidou Positioning System.
Shale gas mining, (Chinese is the only one outside North America who realized shale gas commercial exploitation)
......

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Ningbo Heyuan company 1800000 tons of methanol to olefins project

There is a detail many people have forgotten or never knew, during the rescue of Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japane depends on Chinese Sany Heavy Industry long arm cement pump to complete the project. why Japane even can not make a such tool with its industrial power?
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Made in China

During Japanese "lost twenty years", its economy stagnated, its industry shrunk , new tech stoped , under such circumstance Japanese elected their war-pro leaders.

You have made your bed , so you must lie in it. Poor Japanese

Well said.In fact,Japan seems to keep lost in the future with aging people,big company disease,shrinking internal market,tough international competition,decreasing youth competence etc.

 

[Keel]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board of Directors today approved a contract with BYD Motors for the manufacture and delivery of up to 25 new all-electric buses as part of a $30 million clean air bus technology pilot project.

Metro to purchase first electric buses for L.A. County transit riders | Metro's The Source

1/13/2015 @ 7:11上午 3,591 views
BYD Builds American Dream By Getting Electric Buses Rolling

BYD 18 years ago as a marketing manager. She recalls that during her first time representing BYD at the International Consumers Electronics Show, she walked from one exhibition booth to another to make the introduction: “We are BYD. We will become the largest lithium-ion battery manufacturer in China.”

The response?

“They said, you’re already the third one to tell us that you’re China’s No.1.” Li chuckles as the old days flash back.

Today’s BYD, which stands for “build your dream,” is not only China’s but the world’s largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, servicing global clients such as Samsung, HTC and Motorola. Yet Li’s job, overseeing the U.S. market as senior vice president, isn’t that much easier, as BYD is pushing hard to build a new reputation as a global brand of electric vehicles. With its electric bus the “K9” and electric taxis the “E6,” it has been knocking on the doors of the public transportation sector abroad.

Stanford University is among BYD’s biggest return clients for electric buses: having deployed 13 on campus, it decided to add another 10 to the shuttle fleet this year. The school now comes after Los Angeles Metro, which contracted 25 electric buses, as BYD’s No.2 customer in the U.S.

To put these numbers in perspective, a South Carolina-based competitor Proterra, founded in 2004, has delivered a total of 44 electric buses by mid 2014. In 2013, less than 0.4% of the 70,000 buses in the U.S. were powered by pure electricity, and another 13.2% were hybrid buses, according to the 2014 Fact Book published by the American Public Transportation Association.

BYD’s electric taxis have yet to see any major deal in the U.S., even though it’s recently made headways in London with a lease for 200 taxis, and has a couple hundred running in South America, Hong Kong and other parts of Europe. Li says in Chicago, five electric taxis have been delivered to Uber for test drive, and that efforts are also underway in New York City without disclosing further details. Uber has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

The company’s baby steps in America are in stark contrast with its takeoff back home in China, where it has 30% market share in new energy vehicles. Though overall profits have dipped due to the rapid decline of its gasoline vehicles business, sales of electric vehicles picked up quickly in 2014. The new electric-gasoline hybrid model, Qin, has enjoyed unexpected popularity since its release early last year. Units sold shot up from less than 2,500 in the first quarter of 2014 to more than 4,000 in the third quarter, making Qin the most popular electric model off BYD’s production line. In comparison, the pure electric sedan E6 sold a little over 600 units in Q3 2014.

Progress in the U.S. has been “much slower” than expected in Li’s opinion. In 2013 she forecasted delivery of 200 to 300 buses to U.S. customers by the end of last year. In March, a $12 million contract with Long Beach Transit was canceled amid questions over BYD’s local salaries and compliance with Federal Transit Administration procedures.

“The U.S. market is a very conservative one. The process of purchasing electric buses is quite slow due to budgeting and regulations,” says Li. “It’s also a new industry so it takes a lot of time to win trust.”

Stella Li, BYD’s senior vice president who oversees the North American market.

Speaking fast and with determined briskness, Li was dressed in a sports suit and a pair of bright-pink sneakers during the November interview. She was getting ready to run 400-meter-dash with other senior executives, at a company-wide track meet celebrating the 20-year-anniversary of BYD’s founding. Unable to speak English fluently when she first joined, Li now spends most of her time abroad and oversees the North American market, where the company has backed off from going directly to the consumers market and opted for institutional buyers instead.

But even without any regulatory hurdles abroad, insufficient battery capacity would still have bounded BYD’s feet. In the past year, battery production capacity was not upgraded in time to satisfy the rising demand domestically. For a few months in mid 2014, production of Qin had to be held off since all the battery capacity was deployed to fulfill a Nanjing government order for 650 buses ahead of the Youth Olympic Games, analysts say.

“BYD didn’t think [the electric cars business] would take off that quickly this year. It was a misjudgment. But perhaps nobody thought so,” says Leping Huang, an analyst at Nomura. As of December, the company claimed to have more than 10,000 back orders for Qin, while Nomura estimated another 2,000 to 3,000 back orders for buses. This battery shortage was a factor limiting the company’s overseas growth, in Huang’s opinion.

BYD has set a goal to upgrade its battery capacity by six times from a year ago by the end of 2015. It has also announced plans to adopt a new type of battery from 2015 that promises improved performance. However if the company has any technological advantage for the new battery’s mass production is still questionable, according to Scott Laprise, an analyst at CLSA.

But Li seems full of optimism. She’s already planned the next product for the U.S. market: electric trucks – garbage trucks, delivery trucks and even mixers, etc., she explains, though these trucks don’t yet exist as actual products.

“I’ve seen how the words of BYD, those that others saw as ravings, became reality step by step,” she sounds a note of confidence, referencing BYD’s rise to the top as China’s No.1 lithium-ion battery maker.

“We still have a bigger dream. We hope BYD would become a world-class brand known to every household.”

 

[antonius123]

From the recently reports, maybe the "Toilet cover" is a good item for Chinese tourists, or coupled with cameras and other three two, but can one say Japanese household appliance industry has not resigned the world market? China now can do many things that Japan cannot do and will not speak out, let us have a look the Japanese has significantly lagged behind:

High-speed Rail transportation equipment,
Communication equipment (China accounted for two in the world's five largest ),
Intelligent mobile phone (who is now with the Japanese mobile phone?)
Grid (China have the best UHV and smart grid technology),
4G and the upcoming 5G Technology (Chinese independent 4G standard TD-LTE, catch up with the west, China has 5G international standards),
Hydropower(the world's largest hydropower China has 800000 kilowatt water turbine manufacturing technology)
Thermal power ( the most efficient ultra supercritical thermal power units is in China),
The 4th generation nuclear power (Shandong Rongcheng Shidao Bay, the four generation nuclear power has been opened),
Construction (the world's largest dam, the largest high-speed rail network; the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge),
Stealth fighter aircraft and large transport aircraft,
Coal to olefins tech matured ( using coal instead of oil as a chemical raw material, first turn the coal into methanol, and made ethylene and propylene from methanol, China has already industrialized this tech before any country),
Quantum communication,
High performance computer.
Beidou Positioning System.
Shale gas mining, (Chinese is the only one outside North America who realized shale gas commercial exploitation)
......

View attachment 197474

Ningbo Heyuan company 1800000 tons of methanol to olefins project

There is a detail many people have forgotten or never knew, during the rescue of Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japane depends on Chinese Sany Heavy Industry long arm cement pump to complete the project. why Japane even can not make a such tool with its industrial power?
View attachment 197475
Made in China

During Japanese "lost twenty years", its economy stagnated, its industry shrunk , new tech stoped , under such circumstance Japanese elected their war-pro leaders.

You have made your bed , so you must lie in it. Poor Japanese

Yeap, but china should not be complacent at the moment. She still need to chase robot, auto, and semiconductor manufacturing technology, and some electronics component technology where Japan still ahead currently.

 

[esolve]

I think there are no BYD purchased by New York yet. BYD supplied some buses for range testing in Manhattan traffic. I think Denver bought some for their airport

the test have finished in 2013. Now BYD electric buses are running in New York at night

 

[opruh]

The pollution here in Manila can sometimes be too much, hope the government will at least consider electric bus like the ones by BYD.

 

[Keel]

The pollution here in Manila can sometimes be too much, hope the government will at least consider electric bus like the ones by BYD.

BYD has operation in the Philippines but e-buses is the market segment that BYD should not have missed out on.

All the best wishes

 

[Beast]

I can foresee big sales for BYD. BYD has great future.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

the test have finished in 2013. Now BYD electric buses are running in New York at night

I don't see any mention of a purchase or any night runs. It certainly is possible...

Even looked on their website for sales news
News | BYD

I see Proterra electric bus sales though:
Press Releases | Proterra

Here one from the WRTA (Massachusetts)

Foothill transit (California)

River City (Kentucky)

Maybe you see electric bus sales and assume it must be BYD.

 

[AndrewJin]

I've just visited Golden Dragon Bus in Xiamen. Here are some buses for Israel and Xiamen.
Golden Dragon is also a top bus manufacturer.
King Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The group's products are under the name of "King Long", "Golden Dragon" and "Higer" respectively. All these three companies sell buses around the world

 

[Keel]

London's first 'green' electric taxis take off
Published time: February 12, 2014 12:28
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London's first fleet of electric powered mini-cabs has hit the streets. Twenty vehicles built by China's BYD will be available for private hire.

BYD is partly backed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway group.

London's first fleet of electric taxis comes into operation four years ahead of the 2018 deadline Mayor Boris Johnson set for all new cabs to have zero emissions. Aimed at reducing pollution the Mayor’s office says taxis account for around a third of all the exhaust emissions in London.

The decision has created competition among manufacturers including BYD, Nissan, Metrocab, and the London Taxi Company to have electric models ready.

The Chinese manufacturer BYD, which is 9.9 percent owned by the investment titan Warren Buffett, has provided the 20 e6 electric model taxis, less than two months after supplying the first electric buses to London.

“Londoners are typically early adopters to new technology . . . and we are very happy to be first and beat the deadline by a few years. This is where the electric vehicle technology will shine,”Isbrand Ho, Managing Director of BYD Europe told the Financial Times.

The BYD e6 model is a five-seat crossover vehicle, fitted with a 75kW motor and lithium-ion batteries. The vehicle has a top speed of 87mph (140km/h), and a maximum range of around 186 miles (300 km).

The mini-cab company will have charging points provided by British Gas, which is installing a city-wide network.

The cost of a 1kWh charge is around $0.16, providing a range of 200 miles (320 km), a full day's travel will therefore cost between $8 and $14, depending what time of the day the car is recharged, says Arvind Vij, the founder of Thriev mini-cabs.

If the experiment is a success a further 50 cars are expected to be added in July, after BYD signed a memorandum of understanding to supply to another minicab firm - Green Tomato Cars.

London Mayor Boris Johnson wants the current fleet of 22,000 diesel-powered black cabs replaced with new electric vehicles and petrol range-extender designs.

Electric buses hit London roads
First 100% electric buses go on trial on central routes with more expected in 2016,reports BusinessGreen



One of the first two fully electric buses in London, made by Chinese company BYD Photograph: /Tom Callow
Will Nichols for BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network

Thursday 19 December 2013 09.47 GMT

Two electric buses have hit the streets of London as part of a trial to see if the technology is suitable for shorter routes around the capital.

The 12-metre single deck buses will service Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge stations running on routes 507 and 521 from today.

According to Chinese manufacturer BYD Auto, the zero-emission buses should reduce running costs by about three quarters compared to a diesel bus and can travel up to 250km (155 miles) on a single four or five hour charge - sufficient to operate for a full day without the need to recharge.

Six further electric buses are set to be introduced into the TfL fleet in early 2014, four of which were secured with funding from the Department of Transport's Green Bus Fund with a further two funded from Transport for London's technology demonstration budget.

And more zero emission buses may be forthcoming if London beats off competition from seven other European cities to win a partnership funding bid to trial a range of pure electric and hybrid vehicle technologies and charging techniques.

London has also introduced zero emission hydrogen buses on the RV1 route between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway and is currently trialling 120 buses that run on used cooking oil.

The city intends to deliver Europe's largest hybrid bus fleet by introducing 1,700 by 2016 to cover a fifth of the fleet. Around 600 are already operational including the New Routemasters, which have faced criticism over their multi-million pound price tags but are said to offer significant fuel efficiency and emissions savings.

Matthew Pencharz, senior environment and energy advisor to the Mayor of London, said: "Electric buses could help deliver the cleaner and greener bus fleet we need to cut carbon emissions and improve air quality.

"If these prove successful we plan to see more introduced over the next few years to run alongside the hybrid and hydrogen bus technology that is already tackling air pollution and carbon emissions across the capital."


BYD teams up with Middle East enterprise to expand solar business
OFweek | Posted: 26 Jan 2015, 10:47

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(OFweek) – BYD participated in the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) held in Abu Dhabi recently and entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Phoenix Solar at the exhibition. The two parties signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) based on the principle of mutual benefits and win-win result and announced that they would establish partnership in the field of clean energy like solar PV modules, making a common efforts to develop the solar PV industry in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

According to the report estimation recently released by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, due to the advancement of global PV technology and the reduction of costs, the added PV capacity of global PV industry will continue to maintain more than 30% of growth rate from 2014 to 2016. Particularly, the PV industry in 2015 will continue to develop. Besides the large-scale solar PV plants in the desert and the rooftop PV, the solar PV power generation facilities will be seen in more places. The solar PV product overseas sales market of BYD covers dozens of nations around the world, such as Germany, Italy, Spain, the US, etc. BYD plays a more and more important role



BYD Unveils World's First Battery Electric Coach Bus




Pictured Above: The BYD C9 unveiled at the 2015 United Motor Coach Association Expo
BYD: Electric Vehicles, Photovoltaic, LED Lighting, Energy Storage

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BYD Motors Inc. has officially unveiled the world's first long range, 100% Battery Electric Over the Road Coach Bus. This first electric coach, named the BYD C9, is a two-axle, 40' coach with the seating capacity to carry 47 people at highway speed for over 190 miles.

"The transportation industry is still just warming up to the idea of Battery Electric transit buses," said BYD Coach & Bus Vice President of Sales, Macy Neshati. "It was exciting to walk around last year's APTA Expo in Houston and see so many reputable names displaying an electrified transit bus. However, I don't think anybody thought they would see a viable electric coach solution for a few more years."

The BYD C9 is the first of three 100% Battery Electric coaches the company will launch globally this year. The other two, a 45' three-axle coach named the C10 and a 23' coach with executive and transport configurations named the C6 will be arriving by the end of 2015, and BYD sales managers at the 2015 UMA Expo were adamant about the fact they are taking orders for all three of the coaches starting now.

"Last year, BYD pulled away from the competition in the transit space when they launched a 30' low floor bus and a 60' articulated bus in addition to their 40' bus making them the only electric bus builder with multiple offerings.

This year the launch of three coach buses puts BYD on a level with no other bus or coach OEM. Not many people know this about BYD but we are a multibillion-dollar company employing nearly 190,000 people worldwide. There simply has never been a bus manufacturer in the United States with this sort of engineering or manufacturing power, that's why I tell every customer I meet with they should go BYD, it's the safe choice!" said Neshati.

ABOUT BYD Motors Inc.:BYD Motors Inc. is an American manufacturing company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of BYD Company Ltd, the largest domestic auto-manufacturer and electric-bus manufacturer in China.

BYD is a publicly traded company, with the Hong Kong listed stock 60% of which is owned by U.S. investors, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway as the largest single shareholder at 9.9%. BYD Motors established its headquarters in downtown Los Angeles in October 2011 and has now hired over 60 Americans to support BYD Electric Bus and Energy Module factories in Lancaster, California. There are over 25 American research and development and sales support personnel at the Los Angeles headquarters. BYD expects to create 200 more new jobs by the end of 2015.

Contacts in China: Sherry Li

 

[TaiShang]

BYD aims to revolutionize Brazil's urban transport
2015-3-2 14:54:26


BYD, a Chinese electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, will open its first factory in Brazil this year, with the aim of revolutionizing the country's urban transport.

Adalberto Maluf Filho, director of the company's marketing and governmental affairs in Brazil, told Xinhua that BYD is ready to provide non-polluting buses and taxis for large cities such as Rio and Sao Paulo.

As most large Brazilian cities do not have complete subway networks -- Sao Paulo, the largest city, has four subway lines while Rio has only two, public transportation faces major challenges.

The lack of rail systems has increased the demand for express bus lines and made electric buses a short-term viable option as diesel buses pollute.

BYD is part of a consortium that won a bid last week to develop a car-sharing scheme in Rio, initially with a fleet of 300 electric cars.

BYD will have an advantage as the company is familiar with the project' s requirements, said Maluf. "Those who carried out the implementation studies will have more knowledge about it."

BYD is establishing a factory in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, which will be operational by mid-2015. The factory will produce batteries, solar panels and assemble electric buses with imported parts.

A second factory, which will be built in Sao Paulo state or in the neighboring states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, will manufacture bus chassis locally to reduce the costs of the vehicles.

Battery cells, currently being made only in China, South Korea, Japan and the United States, will also be produced in the factory with the aim of further reducing costs.

As the battery for electric vehicles makes them more expensive than cars that use fossil fuel, BYD will offer a leasing option in Brazil by which taxi companies and drivers can get cars (without battery) at the same price they would pay for a regular car while electric buses will be offered at the same price (without battery) as diesel vehicles, and the money that would have been spent on fuel pays for the battery leasing.

"It is the best deal in the world for taxi drivers, because today they are spending both on fuel and on car payments," Maluf said.

Several Brazilian cities have been testing BYD's electric buses.Campinas and Sao Paulo, both in Sao Paulo state, are purchasing BYD's electric buses, and other cities like Rio are in negotiations with the company for bus fleets.

"We expect to be able to provide a large fleet by early 2016, in time for the Olympic Games," Maluf said.

Rio will host the Summer Olympics next year and several projects are under way to prepare the city for the event.

 

[Sanchez]

Build Your Dreams...lol

 

[Keel]

BYD Sets European Record — 325 Kilometers On A Single Charge
March 26th, 2014 by Roy L Hales




BYD’s electric buses have set a European record, travelling 325km (202 miles) on a single charge, at the end of which they still had 8% of battery charge remaining.

This exceeds the 310 km record, with 31% of charge remaining, that BYD set last year on a trip between Warsaw and Krakow.

The world record, however, would still appear to be in Malaysia, where Prasarana Transit reported that the buses were getting more than 400 kilometers to a charge!

Two electric buses have been operating in Copenhagen since January, where they have proven they can operate well in the Scandinavian winter.

More than 25 European cities have tried out the BYD electric bus.

In Ankara, Turkey, BYD’s electric bus reputedly proved it can provide a 80-90% reduction in operating and maintenance costs over natural gas fueled buses.

Meanwhile, the California Labor Commissioner dropped recent charges that BYD had paid workers less than the state’s minimum wages and reduced the company’s fine from $99,245 to $37,803.

The company’s lawyer, Lanny J Davis, has issued a statement saying:

It is my understanding that BYD welcomes the decision by the California Labor Commissioner to dismiss as unmerited citations alleging that BYD paid below California’s minimum wage to five professionals from China who temporarily worked for BYD in the latter half of 2013.

BYD produced substantial documents to the Commissioner’s office proving that BYD paid these professionals the equivalent of above the state minimum wage of $8.00 hour. BYD documents prove that these professionals were in fact paid $12-$16 / hour. Therefore, the Commissioner’s office has today agreed to dismiss the minimum wage assessment based on the alleged under-minimum-wage payments. All five of these professionals were no longer working for BYD in California by the end of 2013.

However, the Labor Commissioner’s position is that BYD should have paid these five employees in U.S. dollars, not in their home currency – Chinese renminbi (RMBs). While BYD disagrees with this position as a matter of law, in the spirit of resolving this matter, BYD has agreed to pay $1,900 for this alleged error. This means that the hearing on the minimum wage issue on calendar for tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, will no longer be necessary. BYD appreciates the cooperation and communication that led to this resolution.

However the hearing will continue regarding two other alleged technical violations that BYD denies — the alleged omission of two out of nine categories of information on check stubs of all employees; and the alleged denial of rest breaks for 8 employees who were permitted to choose to take one twenty-minute rest break, rather than requiring a split of this break into two ten-minute breaks against the employees’ preference.