Factory rolls out first made in Vietnam buses

[Viet]

http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/419089/factory-rolls-out-first-made-in-viet-nam-buses.html

Factory of car producer Thaco churns out 20,000 buses a year. That is just the beginning. More factories are under construction capable of producing hundreds of thousands of units for both domestic and export markets.

 

[Viet]

@Martian2

VN needs to work harder to close the 40 year gap in development to China, doesn’t it?

 

[Kai Liu]

Well, if this is the first ever bus produced by Vietnam, then there is indeed a 40 year gap, instead of a 15 year gap as I thought before..

 

[kankan326]

The buses look good. Congratulations to Vietnam.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Well, if this is the first ever bus produced by Vietnam, then there is indeed a 40 year gap, instead of a 15 year gap as I thought before..

i remember that the first truck has been made in CHINA in 1958!?No?!


Dongfeng CA71 (1958)

Hongqi CA72 (1959)

Shanghai SH760

good move though, but still long way to catch CHINA level.
CHINA SUV champion HAVAL of chinese brand Great Wall

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

FULL electrical BYD K serie buses of CHINA
oversea market counting only!
Seeing is believing!
North America

A North American-spec BYD bus in New York City with MTA Regional Bus Operations.

A North American-spec BYD bus with Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

• BYD announced its bus in the US at the 16th BUSCON in Chicago on September 13, 2011.[38]BYD supplied one K9 bus to be retrofitted with WAVE’s wireless charging pad under the bus, developed by the Utah State University Energy Dynamics Laboratory in 2012.
• The city of Windsor, Ontario signed a letter of intent to order as many as 10 BYD electric buses in May, 2012.
• Aruba plans to use BYD by 2020. The country signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BYD to place four BYD buses and one e6 electric taxi for public/government use, to be in service by the end of September 2013.
• The Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado ordered 36 BYD buses for use on their Downtown Mall Shuttle.
• TransLink, which services Vancouver, British Columbia began a three-month trial of BYD bus in May of 2017.

South America

BYD K9 electric bus in Rio de Janeiro

• On June 20, 2012, BYD and Chilean collaborator INDUMOTORA Company secured a contract with ALSACIA, one of the biggest operators in Santiago's public transport system, for 5 K9 units.
• BYD scheduled a large commercial operation of its K9 in Brazil and set up a bus production factory there which, however, is not certified by BYD. The mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil confirmed plan to introduce at least 5 BYD electric buses to Sao Paulo by the end of 2012.
• At the beginning of 2012, BYD and Buquebus officials signed a contract to begin importing 500 buses into Uruguay. According to Bernama, the first buses would arrive in Uruguay before during 2012 with 500 buses running by 2015.
• BYD entered a fuel-efficiency testing program in Colombia run by the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) and InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB). Running against diesel and CNG-hybrid buses on a 12-mile route that took between 60 and 90 minutes to complete, BYD won by achieving a 7.3 km/liter-equivalent by measuring costs and 11 km/liter-equivalent measuring by energy output. Peru has also tested BYD's electric bus.A fleet of 12-meter 80-passenger units was to be delivered to Bogotá for trial operation as of Q2 2013. The first one-month stage of this project was to focus on testing the fleet on operational performance, energy consumption, battery behavior and total energy consumption.

East Asia, Southeast Asia & South Asia

A BYD battery-run electric bus on Rapid KL
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A BYD express bus in Kyoto.

A BYD battery-run electric bus operated by Go-Ahead Singapore. This bus is currently in a trial for six months.

• Hong Kong: In July, 2011, the BYD Hong Kong Research and Development Center opened with a group of six engineers, in cooperation with its existing development team. The Kowloon Motor Bus fleet reportedly ordered 10 buses from BYD. The first unit arrived in September 2012. The public transit service planned to test the units on three transmit lines. The Kowloon Motor Bus BYD bus was eventually returned to BYD. However, KMB ordered 10 BYD K9R with Gemilang body and delivered in 2017. Long Win Bus ordered 4 BYD K9R with Gemilang body and delivered in 2017. Citybus and NWFB ordered 5 BYD K9R Electric buses from BYD Auto of China.
• India: In December 2013, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation planned to start a three-month test of a K9.
• Malaysia: In February 2014, BYD won the bid to supply 15 buses to Rapid Bus, a Prasarana Malaysia subsidiary. Rapid Bus will be using the 15 electric buses as shuttle buses on Kuala Lumpur's first BRT line on elevated guideway exclusively for electric buses namely BRT Sunway Line.
• Philippines: In 2016 BYD Auto announced the sells of its ten electric buses to the Philippines. It would be the first Chinese auto industry entry into the Filipino growing market. The electric buses would be part of the Point to Point (P2P) bus service programme.
• Japan: In February 2015, Kyotokyukou Bus Inc. of Kyoto, Japan, took delivery of five BYD electric buses, making BYD the first Chinese auto company to enter the Japanese market.
• Singapore:
  • SMRT Corporation Ltd, Singapore's premier multi-modal transport service provider signed an MOU in June 2011 with BYD to consider a joint venture to distribute BYD’s electric buses and e6 taxis in Singapore.
  • Go-Ahead Singapore, under the Go-Ahead Group of the United Kingdom, together with Land Transport Authority delivered its first fully electric bus. It will undergo vigorous testing and be put to service for trial runs for six months. The bus made its first debut on 7 November 2016 on Service 17.After that, it went on hiatus, before coming back on Service 119 on February.

AustralasiaEdit

• NZ Bus is trialling a BYD eBus for up to three months in Auckland and Wellington from February 2017.

Middle East

• In August 2012, a contract for 700 electric bus delivery was completed between BYD and Israeli transit company Dan Bus. The first buses were expected to be deployed in 2012. Based on the market price of 2.1 million yuan (USD330,000), the contract is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion yuan (USD236.65 million). The contract was BYD’s largest order to date from a public transport operator outside of China.

Europe

BYD electric bus on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog.

Movia bus line 3A on Enghavevej at Sønder Boulevard in Vesterbro in Copenhagen.

BYD electric bus test vehicle in Bonn, Germany.

BYD bus in Warsaw on Ujazdowiskie Avenue.

London General BYD electric bus at Victoria.
BYD electric bus has been tested in European countries including Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Hungary and Spain and Denmark in cities such as Bremen and Bonn, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid, Barcelona[60] and Warsaw.

• Finland: on March 12, 2012, BYD and a Finland-based transportation company, Veolia Transport Finland Oy, reached an agreement for K9s for the Finnish capital city Helsinki. BYD’s K9 buses were to undergo a three-year performance test under Finland's conditions of extreme cold.
• Spain: A successful two-week road test of BYD electric bus was conducted by the two main Spanish municipal public transportation companies: EMT (Madrid) and TMB (Barcelona).
• Germany: BYD signed a letter of intent with Frankfurt, Germany to supply three K9s and two charging stations by the end of the first quarter of 2012. The buses were to serve as shuttles at Frankfurt Airport and along public transportation routes.
• Netherlands: the island of Schiermonnikoog in the province of Friesland introduced six new, long-range, K9s in April 2013 after BYD scored the highest in meeting program goals and won an order for the six buses and a 15-year maintenance contract from a European open bid supported by four major bus manufacturers.35 BYD K9s are in service as airportbus between the terminal and B-gate's at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport since 2015.. The busses are adapted for the airport use and charged via a solar powerstation at the airport. Several other public transport authorities throughout the Netherlands have BYD K9s on order.
• Poland: In 2013 the capital city of Poland, Warszawa (Warsaw), tested K-9. BYD claims about 3 hours of charging time were not confirmed: the minimum was over 5 hours. 250 km range was found, less than the required 350 km.
• United Kingdom: In 2013 two units began operating on two central London routes; said to be the capital's first fully electric buses. Transport for London planned to purchase six more BYD buses in 2014. In July 2015, Go-Ahead London confirmed they would order 51 BYD electric buses with Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC bodywork. In March 2016, the first of a fleet of 5 double decker electric buses was launched by Metroline with an extended range of 190 miles.

 

[HannibalBarca]

40years or 30 years gap doesn't mean anything nowadays... since our current dev expension is exponential... You just need to acquire the "first" stone... with ofc a sustainable "fund" input... and then it will only be a matter of years... We ain't reinventing the wheel anymore...

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

40years or 30 years gap doesn't mean anything nowadays... since our current dev expension is exponential... You just need to acquire the "first" stone... with ofc a sustainable "fund" input... and then it will only be a matter of years... We ain't reinventing the wheel anymore...

Yes! Please stop copy our WeChat and Alipay comprehensive capacity system!!!

 

[HannibalBarca]

Yes! Please stop copy our WeChat and Alipay comprehensive capacity system!!!

Since when?

 

[Martian2]

@Martian2

VN needs to work harder to close the 40 year gap in development to China, doesn’t it?

There are a few things that you need to keep in mind.

1. China has a $12 trillion nominal GDP for 2017. Vietnam has a $0.2 trillion nominal GDP.

China's nominal GDP is 60 times larger than Vietnam's. This means Vietnam will have a hard time matching China's economies of scale (e.g. lower cost due to enormous volume production) and China's R&D budget for buses.

2. China can provide better finance terms.

3. China uses more industrial robots to lower the cost of producing buses.

4. China can bundle its buses into its foreign aid packages.

Manufacturing your own bus is pretty impressive for Vietnam. However, the playing field (in economies of scale, marketing budget, automated production, R&D for upgrade technology, and finance) isn't level. Vietnam may find that competing against China in overseas' markets for buses can be pretty tough.

Having said that, I wish you guys the best of luck. In capitalism, may the best country win.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Since when?

Ask you FB and whatspp stop copy wechat and alipay！！！

 

[HannibalBarca]

Ask you FB and whatspp stop copy wechat and alipay！！！

lol... if someone copy the other... we both know who did... Every Chinese social platform are mainland copies of Western social platform... that weren't allowed in China... thanks to "restrictions"...
So yeah... I return your own statement...

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

lol... if someone copy the other... we both know who did... Every Chinese social platform are mainland copies of Western social platform... that weren't allowed in China... thanks to "restrictions"...
So yeah... I return your own statement...

Again ask FB and Wahsapp stop add money,taxi,medical,gas,water,electricity functions to their app!

lol... if someone copy the other... we both know who did... Every Chinese social platform are mainland copies of Western social platform... that weren't allowed in China... thanks to "restrictions"...
So yeah... I return your own statement...

2)Secondly,Care to explian why Huawei banned in USA despite its super advanced techs？？May or may not threaten USA national security??? BTW,cisco,microsoft,Alcatel,Nokia,Erisson,Not banned in China.And Google decided voluntarily to move its site to Hongkong China coz they do not want to respect China laws as well as ebay and MSN of microsoft,they have been defeated by QQ of tencent and wechat as well as Taobao of alibaba,their failure are not an excuse of restrictions you are talking about!and you USA are still doing restrictions on some chinese best companies such Huawei and ZTE,who is playing the rule of manipulating??

When we were backward,you say chinese company were nothing but copycat,and when we have super advanced company you ban them LMAO,you USA are just can not get enough to make your own rules can you??!! ....
There are very good company make tons of money in China such as GE, Apple,Walmart,XOM(Exxon Mobil)，Royal Dutch Shell,CHEVRON,Daimler Chrysler,Ford Motor,IBM and so on and so on.......
so please do not blame us for your own failure by non-respect to chinese customers and chinese laws!

 

[HannibalBarca]

Again ask FB and Wahsapp stop add money,taxi,medical,gas,water,electricity functions to their app!


2)Secondly,Care to explian why Huawei banned in USA despite its super advanced techs？？May or may not threaten USA national security??? BTW,cisco,microsoft,Alcatel,Nokia,Erisson,Not banned in China.And Google decided voluntarily to move its site to Hongkong China coz they do not want to respect China laws as well as ebay and MSN of microsoft,they have been defeated by QQ of tencent and wechat as well as Taobao of alibaba,their failure are not an excuse of restrictions you are talking about!and you USA are still doing restrictions on some chinese best companies such Huawei and ZTE,who is playing the rule of manipulating??

When we were backward,you say chinese company were nothing but copycat,and when we have super advanced company you ban them LMAO,you USA are just can not get enough to make your own rules can you??!! ....
There are very good company make tons of money in China such as GE, Apple,Walmart,XOM(Exxon Mobil)，Royal Dutch Shell,CHEVRON,Daimler Chrysler,Ford Motor,IBM and so on and so on.......
so please do not blame us for your own failure by non-respect to chinese customers and chinese laws!

care to tell me why 99.999% of Chinese IT tech allowed worldwide and in the US included... while Facebook; twitter and so on... blocked in China?
Even Apple got his licence few years ago...
Not even speaking about Google rejection this last decade...
And the list goes on...

as for Huwai... Smartphones are allowed... on "telecom" area are not...since they got caught years ago on espionnage...

Look...we ain't going to measure d*cks..; China is way way ahead on market manipulation and restriction of foreign brand than US... far far far away ahead... so stop it...

AND yes EVERY SOCIAL PLATFORM MAD EIN CHINA WAS A WESTERN COPY...bc of restrictions... Period

Accept it and move on..; it's not like it's a shame or Icare tbh...

 

[AViet]

http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/419089/factory-rolls-out-first-made-in-viet-nam-buses.html

Factory of car producer Thaco churns out 20,000 buses a year. That is just the beginning. More factories are under construction capable of producing hundreds of thousands of units for both domestic and export markets.


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The bus may be may be made in Vietnam by Thaco, but all key components, like engine, are imported, and most from China.

I hope next year when the Vinfast complex completed, we can manufacture the engine by ourselves, at least starting by manufacture some key parts of the engine.

For your information, Vietnam could manufacture steam locomotives since 1960s (Tu Luc), based on some Chinese locomotive. Buses, like Ba Dinh bus, have been in manufacturing since 1970 - 1980.