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China, Bulgaria discuss potential use of electric vehicles in Bulgaria

Yongping Chen, the Europe Manager of the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD) has visited Bulgaria on the invitation of the Electric Vehicles Industrial Cluster (IKEM) to discuss potential use of such vehicles in the country.

Chen held working meetings on the issue with members of the IKEM Managing Board, IKEM informs.

IKEM representatives and the Chinese guest have also visited the municipality of Bozhurishte near Sofia on the invitation of its Mayor, who had outlined plans for the construction of a technology park there. The Mayor also presented achievements in improving local infrastructure and declared readiness for partnership with BYD, Novinite.com reports.

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BYD and Juwi-Gruppe connect 47MW PV project in Germany

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  BYD and Juwi-Gruppe have connected their 47MW PV project to the grid to begin commercial operation.

BYD and Juwi-Gruppe have announced that their 47MW solar project in Germany has officially started its commercial operation after it was successfully connected to the grid.

The project consists of 7 solar farms, the largest of which is a 24.4MW plant located in Herzogtum Lauenburg, Germany and covers an area of 168,649 square metres. The 24.2MW plant generates around 228,753,82 kWh of solar power every year. The specific locations of the other six plants have not been disclosed but they are all in Germany.

BYD supplied the PV modules for the project as mentioned by the general manager of BYD’s overseas solar sales division, Tom Zhao. “We’re very glad to have a great partnership with Juwi-Gruppe and we hope to keep expanding our cooperation. This cooperation between BYD and Juwi-Gruppe this time will take BYD’s cost effective and high efficiency solar modules to Germany to provide local residents with green and clean energy.”

BYD has focused its efforts in Germany of late. Just last week, it announced that it had connected two solar projects in the country, in cooperation with SunEnergy Europe, with a combined capacity of 6.65MW.

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BYD enters Brazilian market with 21kW rooftop installation

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  BYD has completed its first rooftop PV system in Brazil.

China-based BYD has connected its first rooftop solar project in Brazil. The PV system has been installed on the rooftop of the Brazilian Concessionária Ecorodovias highway toll station and has a capacity of 21kW. The installation was carried out by the EPC contractor Blue Sol Solar Energy, a Brazlian distributor of BYD products. 

Following the success of this project, BYD are keen to expand its solar business in the country. The general manager of BYD PV, Tom Zhao, said, “Though the project is not big enough, it’s BYD’s first rooftop project in the region. Based on the project, we are going to develop more business here. In solar industry, BYD has its unique core competence, we believe it is a good start.”

Earlier this week, BYD announced that it had connected a 47MW PV project in Germany — a project developed in collaboration with Juwi Gruppe.

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Electric bus fleet heads to Tel Aviv

Electric-powered buses will soon be plying the streets of Tel Aviv.

The Dan Bus Company, which serves Tel Aviv and its suburbs, has signed a deal with Chinese company BYD to purchase up to 700 full-size electric buses. The first buses will be deployed in the coming months, with more buses gradually joining Dan’s fleet over the next several years. Eventually, Dan hope to replace about half of its current fleet of about 1,300 buses with the new electric models.

The BYD buses are pure electric — without a standard internal combustion engine for backup, as in hybrids – and some of the models also sport a photovoltaic system on the roof to generate electricity, which is fed into the battery. The battery itself was developed by BYD, and the company claims that it is good for 6,000 recharges.

Recharging is done by simply plugging the battery into a special charger supplied by BYD, and 100 kilowatts of power is enough to supply the bus with enough power to run for 100 kilometers. The full recharging cycle is completed in 3-6 hours. Recharging will be done at Dan garages, not at Better Place recharging stations, which are being deployed around Israel for use by passenger vehicles.

Each bus is 12 meters long, and can run up to about 250 kilometers (155 miles) on a single charge, more than enough for a daily run on most routes. That assumes normal road conditions — hardly the case in traffic-choked Tel Aviv, where the distance per charge is likely to be somewhat smaller, Dan officials said.

BYD (an acronym for “Build Your Dreams”) is a major player in the electric bus market. Its buses are deployed in a number of cities in China, Europe, and North and South America, and US investor Warren Buffet owns 10 percent of the company. According to the BYD, the accumulated mileage achieved for its electric buses by the end of July 2012 reached over 8.23 million kilometers (5.1 million miles).

The buses are being brought to Israel by BYD’s importer, Clal Motors. In a statement, Doron Vadai, the CEO of Clal Motors, said, “BYD’s electric bus is the perfect solution for the city of Tel Aviv, reducing both emissions and noise for the benefit of the citizens of Tel Aviv. This pilot will make Dan one of the pioneers in the zero emission public transportation era in the world.”

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China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Secures Orders for BYD Battery Back-up for Nuclear Plants

China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC) announced the results of the bidding for their largest high-power, high-capacity battery back-up stations to date, with BYD of Shenzhen winning the bid.

A "National Energy Application Technology Research and Engineering demonstration project", CGNPC plans to couple these 3.5 Mega-Watt-hour back-up batteries with their nuclear power stations to deliver power up to 2.5MW levels. The energy storage station will serve as an emergency power source to safeguard workers and protect station equipment from being damaged in extreme conditions where the nuclear plants may lose their electrical supply.

Nuclear safety has become tantamount for the nuclear power industry due to recent events with increasingly stricter standards for product reliability. With failure potentially having life-or-death consequences, every single component, from reactor to screw, is held to a higher commercial standard. The battery backup system is designed to avert a disaster like Japan's Fukushima Power Plant 311 experienced because of a power failure. Technologies that qualified for this bid were all reviewed for their maturity, commercial stability and absolute safety and reliability even in the harshest conditions, such as earthquake, tsunami, fire, and radioactive exposure. BYD has gained industry-wide recognition as the safest, most environmentally-friendly and most mature battery energy storage solution available. BYD's second generation energy storage station can provide "passive" emergency power for Nuclear power plants.

In 2010, BYD launched the world's first MWh-level Iron-Phosphate (or "Fe") energy storage station attached to China's Southern Power Grid. In 2011, this plant was dwarfed by an even larger 36 MWh storage station at China's State Grid's "National Sun" project - a renewable, base-load power generation plant. BYD has also provided energy storage station solutions to global companies such as the EPRI, Chevron, Duke Energy, and the Power Science Institute. He Long Vice President of BYD said, "BYD is honored to cooperate with China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp to improve the reliability of our world's nuclear assets." Currently, there are more than 400 second generation nuclear power units worldwide, affording the opportunity for significant growth in the battery back-up industry.

BYD is a manufacturer of environmentally-friendly battery technologies like the BYD's Iron Phosphate battery used in BYD electric vehicles and electric buses.

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BYD Sells First Electric Cars to Thailand

BYD e6 electric crossover

SHENZHEN CHINA - Recently, MEA, the Thailand power company, has placed an order for 3 pure electric vehicles from BYD. This is BYD's first new energy vehicle business order in Thailand, adding a new domain for its global business area.

MEA is one of the three largest power companies in Thailand, mainly provide power supply for the capital Bangkok and two other nearby provinces. BYD will supply 3 pure electric vehicles and ancillary charging devices to MEA, to promote the development of electric vehicle industry in Thailand, also introduce BYD's Green City Solution and laid a strong foundation for Thai intelligent cities building.

At present, electric vehicles are generally not mass launched in Thailand. After recognizing that BYD's pure electric taxis have been successfully operating in Shenzhen for more than 2 years, MEA, who realizing the development trend of pure electric vehicle, rapidly showed great interests. The 3 purchasing electric vehicles are maybe used for the executive business cars for MEA senior leadership, to enhance its public image for green and environment protection.

MEA executive said, BYD is a pragmatic company, with the benefiting humankinds green career who focusing on electric vehicle industry.BYD has the world leading research, development and manufacturing strength on pure electric vehicle. Cooperation with the BYD reflects our common green ideas. We will keep the close relationship with BYD, to promote the development of electric vehicle, energy storage, and solar power industry in Thailand.

BYD e6 electric taxi, as the world's largest pure electric taxi team with launching up to 300, has been successfully operating in Shenzhen for over 2 years, which driving range achieve 24,380,000 kilometer. Electric buses also have launched more than 200, successfully running in Shenzhen, Changsha, Xi' AN, Shaoguan and other cities, which fleet footprints overseas present in many cities and regions.

The e6 order this time is BYD's huge breakthrough in Thailand, which opening up a whole new market for new energy products. Mr. Liu, the director of BYD Asia - Pacific Auto Sales, said, BYD is a company focusing on new energy industry. Our products have not only pure electric cars, electric buses, but also solar products and energy storage station. Our storage products based on the world's leading Fe battery technology, which have been successfully applied in the projects of Nation Grid and China Southern Power Grid. The cooperation with MEA this time is quite smoothly. We look forward for more multi-faceted cooperations with MEA in energy storage, solar power and other fields for Thailand's intelligent city and green future.

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Yunnan Investment, BYD to open energy vehicle manufacturing plants in China

Yunnan Investment Holdings and BYD are planning to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, southwest China.

Both the companies will cooperate in three stages over the coming year.

Under the first stage, the market will be developed with BYD supplying Yunnan Investment Holdings BYD e6 electric taxis to be dispatched in the main cities of Yunnan including Kunming, Qujin, Zhaotong, Honghe, Dali and Wenshen.

Second stage will see both the companies expand the business to electrify urban public transportation with BYD's GreenCity Electric buses.

In the third stage, BYD will work with Yunnan Investment to open a new-energy vehicle manufacturing base to serve all of southwest China and neighboring countries.

BYD chairman Chuanfu Wang said, "BYD is the only enterprise who has pure electric buses, pure electric and environmentally-friendly Iron Phosphate (Fe) battery technology in China."

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