La china BYD recibe desde Chile el mayor pedido de buses eléctricos de Latinoamérica

Serán usados para el Transantiago y tendrá la colaboración de ENEL.

Por: EFE | Publicado: Martes 3 de julio de 2018 a las 10:17 hrs.

El fabricante chino de automóviles BYD venderá 100 autobuses eléctricos K9FE a Santiago de Chile para operar en el sistema público Transantiago, en lo que supone el mayor pedido de estos vehículos que la compañía recibe en Latinoamérica.
Los vehículos, que llevarán la última tecnología en baterías de BYD, llegarán a finales de noviembre próximo, informó hoy la compañía china en un comunicado, en el que detalló que la operación tiene la cooperación de la distribuidora energética ENEL.

Añadió que la incorporación de estos vehículos a Transantiago convierte a Chile en una de las pioneras en movilidad urbana eléctrica de la región, sirviendo como modelo para implementarlo en otros mercados.
ENEL Y BYD ya introdujeron dos autobuses completamente eléctricos en Santiago de Chile el pasado noviembre, con la intención de mejorar la experiencia de los pasajeros, teniendo una acogida positiva.

Tamara Berríos, portavoz de BYD en Chile, señaló en la nota que con un autobús eléctrico de BYD se "reduce la emisión de carbono de 33 coches", además de que su coste operativo es de 70 pesos por kilómetro, frente a los 350 pesos de los buses movidos por motores de combustión interna.
BYD, que produce baterías para sus propios vehículos eléctricos e híbridos, está presente en más de 200 ciudades alrededor del mundo y prevé tener para 2020 una capacidad de producción de baterías de 60 GWh anuales.

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BYD Lands Its Largest Order To Date In The Americas With 100 Bus Deal in Santiago, Chile

July 3rd, 2018 by Kyle Field

China-based new energy company and electric vehicle titan BYD has inked its largest bus deal in its history in the Americas with a new deal for 100 fully electric BYD buses in Santiago, Chile. The new buses will go into operation in November of this year, when BYD hands them over to transit operator Transantiago.

BYD and partner ENEL have been piloting two fully electric buses in the city since November of last year as city officials looked to determine the future technology for Santiago’s arterial bus routes. BYD and ENEL signed a strategic partnership in 2016 that looks to stack ENEL’s expertise in infrastructure and electric vehicle charging on top of BYD’s decades of experience in stationary energy storage and electric vehicles in a move that said ‘together, we are stronger.’

The new buses will be operated by transit operator Metbus in the Transantiago public transportation system on some of Santiago’s busiest routes. As with all BYD buses, these will be start with a foundation of BYD’s lithium ferro phosphate battery technology on which local transit options and regulatory requirements for the Chilean market will be added.

“Operating a BYD pure electric bus is equivalent to reducing carbon emissions from 33 cars,” BYD Chile spokesperson Tamara Berríos said. “In addition, BYD pure electric buses are safe, quiet and can reduce operating costs by as much as 70 percent. Moreover, a BYD pure electric bus only requires 70 Chilean Pesos to run per kilometer, compared to 350 Chilean Pesos per kilometer for internal combustion engine buses. We believe that we can deliver on both quality and safety.”

Electrification of transit buses in Chile has been driven by local advocates of vehicle electrification on the Metbus team as well as a nationwide desire to eliminate the need to import fuel. Chile’s Minister of Energy, Andrés Rebolledo, explained at the commissioning of the first two electric buses that, “the entry of these first two electric buses are great news for a country like Chile, since the transport sector represents one third of the energy consumption, and it imports practically all the fuel used for transportation.”

The new deal in Chile comes as the next in a long line of big deals BYD has landed in South America including a SkyRail line in the Brazilian city of Salvador and a deal for 200 BYD garbage trucks also in Brazil that build on BYD’s expansion into the region with the electric bus factory in opened in Ecuador last year, among others.
The push into developing markets demonstrate just how competitive electric vehicles can be on a purely financial basis, without even taking into account the noise and emissions benefits they also bring to the table. On top of that, replacing diesel transit buses with fully electric buses is a way for cities to clean up the air in urban areas which results in a healthier population over the long haul.