BYD Auto Co. has manufacturing bases in Xi'an, Shanghai, Guangdong, Beijing, Hangzhou and Tianjin.
For example, the Hangzhou BYD base is located within the Renhe Advanced Manufacturing Base in Yuhang District, which is an important strategic layout for BYD in the East China region, and a major export base for pure electric buses in China. The base was built in June 2014, covering a total land area of 184,900 square meters (or 277.35 acres) and a building area of 128,800 square meters.
It has 1,500 employees. The plant officially started production in September 2015, and its main production models include pure electric buses such as K6, K8 and K9. The production scale of Hangzhou base is 3,000 pure electric buses per year (including 2,000 buses per year in the first phase and 1,000 buses per year in the second phase).
Expanded information:
The BYD plant is described as follows:
Plant 1 Setting up stamping workshop, welding workshop, painting workshop, assembly workshop, internal and external final assembly and inspection workshop, mainly completes the electric bus preparation, welding, painting and parts assembly, internal assembly, electric bus factory inspection and other work.
The workshop is functionally similar to the production workshops of other brands of electric vehicles, but the difference lies in their respective processes and testing standards. For example, the importance of lightweight on the new energy vehicle range and performance is no worse than the energy density of the power battery, while the BYD electric bus adopts aluminum alloy body, body skeleton riveted and welded combination, than the steel body skeleton weight reduction of 40%.
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