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Chinese carmaker BYD Plans Test of electric rental cars in Hong Kong.
He Huifeng UPDATE Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12 9 o'clock.
Continental automaker BYD, partly owned by Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, said yesterday it was difficult to sell electric vehicles made in China and abroad, while developing plans to start a car trial electric for rent in Hong Kong.
We had a bitter experience of promoting our products on foreign markets, said Liu Xueliang, general manager of BYD Auto Sales Asia Pacific Group.
Made in China products are often unrecognized and unrewarded in many countries, said Liu.
He said BYD electric vehicles were used or placed on the test track in 106 cities across 33 countries and regions.
He declined to comment on the share price of BYD, but said the company its best to promote its products abroad, no matter how cheap oil gets the stock has lost a fifth of its value the last year, closing yesterday at October 28 HK.
The Hong Kong company progress was slow in 2013, President Wang Chuanfu said it should BYD to launch dozens of e6 electric cars as taxis in the city by the end of this year, and predicts the number increase to 1,000 by 2014 and 3,000 by 2015. to date, there are only 45 e6 taxis in Hong Kong.
We should not think of the number of taxis as we can get, but also focus on how to find a business model to adapt the Hong Kong market, said Liu.
Before, Hong Kong taxi drivers used to worry about the availability of charging stations, the duration of the load and security Now that BYD taxi ran over six million kilometers, all their doubts and concerns have been taken into account.
Liu said that BYD had chosen Hong Kong to be the first city in the Asia Pacific to launch a test of its car rental business We will rent tens e6 cars this year in Hong Kong.
We offered October a free three-month trial of our e6 cars in Hong Kong airport, some departments, and even individual residents advisors many users will sign a lease with us soon to continue using e6, Liu said.
Wang said an investor conference last night that BYD plans to launch three hybrid SUV models this year.
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