* Shenzhen - BYD may locate its factory in Windsor
Shenzhen,China -China Buses, by Lily -24 Feb 2012: -- Chinese green company BYD Bus, which has its North American headquarters in Los Angeles, has been in discussions for over a year with Mayor Eddie Francis and other local officials about primary manufacturing plant for electric buses in Windsor... The number of possible jobs will likely range between 100 to 500, he said, citing the rate of employment as being roughly equivalent to one job to each bus produced annually... BYD's electric bus was taken on a 15-city tour recently that included Windsor and Toronto (ONT/Canada), Washington and Los Angeles (USA)... The bus costs roughly 20 per cent more than a natural gas hybrid bus, but offers savings through having no fuel costs. A bus can operate all day on a single charge. The company's only other electric bus manufacturing plant is located in China and produces roughly 1,000 vehicles per year, he said...
* Shanghai - Sunlong signed a cooperative agreement with Vibracoustic
Shanghai,SH,China -China Buses, by Lily -24 Feb 2012: -- Sunlong Bus and Germany Vibracoustic signed an strategic cooperative agreement... According to the agreement, both sides will further cooperate and exchange various technical skills in the damping system products etc... In addition, the two sides also keep the regular communication of companies' top executives to set up information sharing platform and constantly improve cooperation relationship between development of strategic cooperation agreement... Vibracoustic is wholly-owned subsidiaries by the Freudenberg Group which is a Germany-based company that supplies seals, vibration control technology components, filters, nonwovens, release agents and lubricants to almost all of the world’s car manufacturers. Under the Freudenberg Group, Vibracoustic now become the NO.1 in the air suspension industry. In China, only 20%-30% of the buses use the air suspension in it...
* Jiangxi - Shangrao Coach Company Secures Big Orders in February
(Image: Shangrao school bus Jiangxi B-Energy)
Shangrao,Jiangxi,China -China Buses, by Song -24 Feb 2012: -- Unlike slack season in previous February, Shangrao Coach Company has made its 600 workers rush out for school bus orders since the third day of the lunar year. In February, the company delivers over 200 school buses, increasing 50% over last February... Cooperating with Chinese Academy of Sciences on new-energy buses, Shangrao Coach Company secured many big overseas orders for high-end buses. With over 40 models of school buses in national bulletin, Shangrao Coach sold nearly 1000 school buses last year, ranking No.5...
* USA - School bus maker to build plant in China
Fort Valley,GA,USA -Automotive News China -28 Feb 2012: -- Blue Bird Corp., a U.S. school bus maker, plans to build an assembly plant with Xiamen Fentai Bus & Coach Co., a Chinese company, in the east China city of Xiamen... The U.S. company said it wants to partner with Xiamen Fentai to build a plant in the city's Haichang district. The plant would produce up to 20,000 school buses a year...
* China - Smith Electric Vehicles and Wanxiang Group to build electric school buses in
Xiaoshan District,Hangzhou,China -Charged EVs (USA), by Charlie Morris -28 Feb 2012: -- Smith Electric Vehicles and Chinese auto parts maker Wanxiang Group announced this morning that they will from a joint venture to manufacture electric school buses and commercial vehicles in China. The companies signed a letter of intent at the US-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum in Los Angeles... The EVs will be sold under the Smith brand, and will combine Wanxiang’s components with Smith’s proprietary drive and battery platforms. The Smith Drive system features a configurable drive controller with integrated inverters for the management of auxiliary systems, as well as a brushless permanent magnet motor. The Smith Power battery system uses battery cells of various sizes from Valence and A123... Smith currently manufactures the Newton and Edison electric commercial vans...Labels: busmakers news China
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