On April 11th, BYD won the award of 'Investing in Holland's Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Enterprises' awarded by the Dutch Foreign Investment Agency.
Under the witness of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (second from right) and Governor of Guangdong Province Ma Xingrui (third from left), He Yipeng (fourth from right), General Manager of BYD Europe Co., Ltd., received the award on behalf of BYD.
During the visit to China by the Dutch Prime Minister, it coincided with the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency. The Dutch Consulate General in Guangzhou organized a Sino-Dutch Business Dinner in Guangzhou. BYD was invited to attend. The dinner was attended by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Lutt and the Governor of Guangdong Province Ma Xingrui. Witnessed, Jeroen Nijland, director of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, awarded the award to BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer.
BYD is the only Chinese car company to receive the award of 'Investing in the Netherlands for its outstanding contribution to Chinese companies'
BYD entered the European market in 1998. After nearly two decades of hard work, it became the largest manufacturer of pure electric buses in Europe with the largest market share. From a little-known small brand to the industry's first, BYD is behind the success of Europe. What kind of story is it going to the sea?
Contrary to the situation, BYD 'Sword' Europe
Like most Chinese brands, BYD's 'road to the west' is not easy.
As a new thing, electric vehicles are not accepted by European mainstream operators at the beginning of European market. At the same time, European markets still have inherent prejudice against Chinese brands. In addition, developed countries such as Europe and America have numerous Old car manufacturers, strict quality requirements for cars.
However, BYD did not give up lightly. Under the obstacles, BYD went against the trend and built a highly competitive pure electric vehicle product with its core technology and strong R&D production capacity, successively in Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Budapest, Milan, and other cities successfully operated. It is this time and again and again that BYD has been widely recognized by local operators, governments and citizens for taking the lead in the European market.
In June 2012, BYD defeated other European competitors in one fell swoop and successfully won the first public tender for electric buses in Europe - Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands.
Immediately afterwards, BYD seized on the victory to win orders for 35 sets of pure electric buses at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands in July 2013, setting a record for Europe's largest pure electric bus order at the time.
BYD pure electric bus from Amsterdam International Airport, Netherlands
The CEO of the Schiphol Group Jos Nijhuis praised BYD Bus products: 'The quality standards in Europe are very high, and Schiphol Airport is even higher. Only the best products can satisfy us. Simple - we think our passengers deserve the best. This may bring some challenges to our partners. I would like to thank BYD for this, they perfectly meet our requirements.
Roadmap, new energy map expanding
At the end of 1998, BYD's first overseas subsidiary and European headquarters settled in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After nearly 20 years of development, BYD has grown into an industry-leading new energy leader.
The scope of business expanded significantly. In the past 20 years, BYD's business scope has expanded from rechargeable batteries to new energy solutions including new energy vehicles, solar panels, energy storage systems, and rail transit.
The market territory continues to expand. In the past 20 years, BYD has successively established new energy bus production bases in Hungary and France to radiate the growing bus demand in the entire European mainland market.
BYD Hungary New Energy Bus Production Base
The number of partners continues to increase. In the UK, BYD has established a partnership with the local bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis GmbH (ADL). With excellent capabilities, BYD became the 'exclusive partner' of the latter and the two parties cooperate to revolutionize the UK market. Sex products. In addition, BYD Europe aftermarket spare parts center was built and put into use in Breda, the Netherlands last year. It can respond to customer needs more quickly and provide customers with efficient and high-quality after-sales services.
Accumulate and lead the new energy transformation
The 2014 OV-Klantenbarometer 2014 passenger satisfaction survey showed that the BYD pure electric bus had a score of 8.4 and ranked first in all public transport services in the Netherlands.
In September 2017, BYD took the lead in the award ceremony held by LowCVP in the UK and won two awards - the "Low Carbon Heavy Vehicle Annual Award" and the "Best Annual Award".
Behind the fame of BYD, relying on its advanced new energy product technology and excellent product quality.
Many years ago, BYD realized that the electrification will become the future automobile development trend, and it will be the first to introduce battery-powered electric bus technology globally. Last year, Volvo and other European veteran manufacturers announced that they would end the era of pure internal combustion engines and fully realize electric power. Add a strong footnote to this trend.
"BYD's pure electric buses are of great significance for the low-carbon environmental protection of heavy-duty vehicles. ' The British Low-Car Auto Group's jury affirmed BYD's positive contribution to the environment.
Nowadays, BYD has achieved great results in the European market. Its electric buses have been opened in Amsterdam, Turin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Madrid and more than 60 major European cities.
BYD pure electric bus in Turin, Italy
Just this month, 20 BYD eBus-7 electric buses were officially put into operation in Jeju Island, South Korea. At this point, the world’s most difficult to break through Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea’s four major automotive developed markets, BYD is making every effort. With the concept of low-carbon and environmental protection, BYD has allowed China's own brand new energy automotive technology to take root in more countries.
BYD electric bus fleet put into use in Jeju Island, South Korea
Looking around the world, BYD's new energy vehicle footprint has spread over 6 continents and more than 200 cities in more than 50 countries and regions. BYD's new energy map development journey in Europe is not only BYD’s practical actions to set off a global scale. The "Green Revolution" is also a microcosm of the collective appearance of Chinese brands and their continuous development and growth.