20 camiones eléctricos BYD rumbo a Ecuador
BYD has received another order from South America. Public transport provider Transcarsell from Ecuador has ordered 20 electric trucks from BYD for delivery by 2021, the first of which is scheduled for August 2020.
The electric vehicles ordered are heavy-duty trucks with a payload of 31.5 tons but can only be used over short distances. The lithium-ion batteries with LFP cells allow a range of 150 kilometres – but BYD does not specify how and in what load condition this value was determined. Transcarsell purchased 20 e-trucks to handle large multimodal containers.
Lenin Garzon, General Manager of Transcarsell, says: “I want my company to be the first of its kind to use trucks that will not only allow me to save but also help reduce the carbon emissions in our sector”.
According to BYD, Transcarsell should also be able to save money with the electric truck in the future because of the lower operating costs. Since the LFP batteries have a specified service life of 15 years, there should be little or no maintenance costs, at least for this expensive component.
In February 2019, BYD delivered 20 electric buses to Ecuador. In the city of Loja in the south of the country, a fleet of 37 BYD electric taxis has also been in operation since 2017.
BYD has had quite a good run so far in South America – mostly from bus fleets. Argentina ha comenzado a electrificar sus flotas de autobuses con autobuses BYD, y en Columbia, Bogotá launched of a tender procedure for the purchase of no fewer than 594 electric buses that are to be integrated into the TransMilenio metro bus system this year.
Pero sobre todo Chile ha sido un buen cliente para la empresa china. En verano del año pasado Chile encarga 183 autobuses totalmente eléctricos de BYD. Hacia finales del año pasado, BYD launched Latin America’s first electric bus corridor en asociación con los operadores locales Enel X y Metbus en la capital chilena de Santiago.
In their press release about the electric trucks in Ecuador, BYD writes “BYD’s Latin American market is rapidly expanding, and its pure electric buses, taxis and trucks are successfully servicing markets in many countries across the region, including Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay.”
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