Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) is planning to start construction of a new electric bus assembly plant in Lancaster, California in the US on 01 May 2013.
The company is expected to establish the assembly in a 13acre non-operational recreational-vehicle manufacturing plant and manufacture the electric buses for markets including the US and Latin America.
BYD had also secured a $14m deal to supply ten electric buses for the transit system of Long Beach that is partly funded by the Federal Transit Administration.
China Enterprise Council chairman Annie Ye was quoted by China Daily as saying that, "BYD is bringing new technology of making electric vehicles to California and that will for sure make contributions to the local environmental efforts."
The buses are scheduled for delivery in 2014, while the company has targeted to manufacture 50 to 100 buses in the first year.
