Worldwide In both 2011 and 2012, BYD obtained orders from amounting to 1200+ units. More than 200 K9s in service in
Shenzhen had accumulated over by the end of August 2012. In 2015, BYD sold about 6,000 of these buses worldwide. BYD became the world leader in the sale of electric vehicles in 2015.
Mainland China • 200 units were delivered to the Shenzhen public transmit system to serve the Universiade 2011 in August, 2011 and remained as part of this city's transport system. This (world's largest) electric bus fleet had reportedly accumulated over by the end of August 2012. • 2 buses began trial service in Changsha 100 more were expected to begin service there in 2012. BYD's Changsha facility was to produce 20,000 passenger vehicles and 400 pure electric buses, increasing to 3,000 electric buses and 100,000 passenger vehicles in 2013. • 3 K9s began service in Shaoguan, Guangdong province on November 3, 2011. • 4 K8s began service in Xi'an in August 2012 with another 46 units expected to join them around the end of 2012. • In July 2012 BYD and Tianjin Public Transportation Group Ltd agreed to set up a joint venture to produce new energy vehicles. • In May 2014 BYD announced an order of 2000 ebuses and 1000 eTaxis for Hangzhou. As of 2014 China about 500,000 conventional city buses were in daily use. BYD sold in 2014 in the first quarter more than 4,000 vehicles, while sales of former market leader Daimler dropped by 20% in 2013.
North America . In the North American transit bus market, the K-series bus is sold with several different nominal lengths, powertrain options, and battery capacities. with
MTA Regional Bus Operations.|thumb • BYD announced its bus in the US at the 16th BUSCON in Chicago on September 13, 2011. BYD supplied one K9 bus to be retrofitted with WAVE's wireless charging pad under the bus, developed by the
Utah State University Energy Dynamics Laboratory in 2012. • The city of
Windsor, Ontario signed a letter of intent to order as many as 10 BYD
electric buses in May 2012. The plan failed with no plant built in Windsor and no orders made by
Transit Windsor. • BYD has supplied the
Los Angeles Metro system with buses since 2015. A 2018 investigation by the
Los Angeles Times found serious reliability issues with the BYD buses. •
Aruba plans to use BYD by 2020. The country signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BYD to place four BYD buses and one e6 electric taxi for public/government use, to be in service by the end of September 2013. • The Denver's
Regional Transportation District purchased 36
BYD K10MR buses for use on their
MallRide service. • TransLink, which services
Vancouver, British Columbia began a three-month trial of BYD bus in May 2017. •
University of California, Irvine acquired 20 BYD electric buses for its Anteater Express shuttle service in 2018 in a $15 million lease-to-own deal, becoming the first college in the US to convert to an all-electric fleet. • Anaheim Transportation Network, which serves the
Disneyland and
Disney California Adventure theme parks with its
Anaheim Resort Transportation service, awarded a 40-bus order to BYD in May 2019, including a mix of K7M, K9M, and K11M buses. The contract was later increased to 42 buses, and the first two were delivered in 2020. •
Toronto Transit Commission received their first two K9M buses in January 2020 and remaining 8 in February 2020. Newmarket plant that assembled the order closed after 2023. The 10 buses delivered to the TTC were pulled from service in 2025 and stored at yard in Etobicoke. • The
San Francisco Municipal Railway procured three BYD K9M buses as part of a battery-electric bus evaluation during 2021 and 2022. In total twelve BEBs will be evaluated during the pilot program, including buses from competitors
New Flyer (XE40),
Proterra (ZX5), and
Nova Bus (LFSe). •
IndyGo purchased 13 BYD K11M Electric Buses for its Red Line in 2018 (later expanded to 31 buses). A 2021 investigation conducted by
WRTV found battery range issues in the BYD K11Ms used on the Red Line. They purchased 28 more for the Purple Line (10 in 2023, 18 in 2024). .
South America • On June 20, 2012, BYD and Chilean collaborator Indumotora Company secured a contract with Alsacia, one of the biggest operators in
Santiago's public transport system, for 5 K9 units. However up to now, Metbus, another operator of Santiago's public transport system, operates two BYD K9FE units. • BYD scheduled a large commercial operation of its K9 in
Brazil and set up a bus production factory there which, however, is not certified by BYD. The mayor of
São Paulo, Brazil confirmed plan to introduce at least 5 BYD electric buses to São Paulo by the end of 2012. • At the beginning of 2012, BYD and
Buquebus officials signed a contract to begin importing 500 buses into Uruguay. According to Bernama, the first buses would arrive in Uruguay before during 2012 with 500 buses running by 2015. A fleet of 12-meter 80-passenger units was to be delivered to
Bogotá for trial operation as of Q2 2013. The first one-month stage of this project was to focus on testing the fleet on operational performance, energy consumption, battery behavior and total energy consumption. BYD has delivered 800 units as of sep-2022 and is expected to deliver 1002 units. • In December 2018, 100 units were added to the public transport system of
Santiago de Chile, together with the first charge terminal for electric buses in
Latin America. • On 19 May 2020 twenty BYD New K9 units were presented in
Uruguay´s capital
Montevideo by its biggest bus service operator CUTCSA, these 20 units were bought for specific use in three electric bus exclusive bus lines CE1(shared with two other operators in an 80%, 10%, 10% division), DE1 and E14 and were adquiered with national funding; they were presented with presence of both municipal and national authorities
Asia Pacific . . . It ran as part of a trial from November 2016 til May 2017. • Hong Kong: In July, 2011, the BYD Hong Kong Research and Development Center opened with a group of six engineers, in cooperation with its existing development team. The
Kowloon Motor Bus fleet reportedly ordered 10 buses from BYD. The first unit arrived in September 2012. The public transit service planned to test the units on three transmit lines. The Kowloon Motor Bus BYD bus was eventually returned to
BYD. However, KMB ordered 10 BYD K9R with
Gemilang body and delivered in 2017.
Long Win Bus ordered 4 BYD K9R with Gemilang body and delivered in 2017.
Citybus and
NWFB ordered 5 BYD K9R Electric buses from
BYD Auto of
China. • India: • In December 2013,
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation planned to start a three-month test of a K9. Even
Pune has a few of these buses. • In 2018 June 18
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation started trial run in
Trivandrum city. •
Kadamba Transport Corporation, in
Goa, took the delivery of thirty Olectra-BYD K9 electric buses, assembled by Olectra (MEIL), in April 2021. Twenty more electric buses were delivered in December 2021. • Indonesia: • In April 2019,
TransJakarta took pre-trial on some electric buses company, including BYD K9 and C6. • In July 2020,
TransJakarta took trial run on K9 and C6 for public with free of charge for three months. • In March 2022,
Mayasari Bakti operates 30 units for TransJakarta in non-BRT routes • Japan: In February 2015, Kyotokyukou Bus Inc. of
Kyoto, Japan, took delivery of five BYD electric buses, making BYD the first Chinese auto company to enter the Japanese market. • Malaysia: In February 2014, BYD won the bid to supply 15 buses to
Rapid Bus, a
Prasarana Malaysia subsidiary.
Rapid Bus will be using the 15 electric buses as shuttle buses on Kuala Lumpur's first BRT line on elevated guideway exclusively for electric buses namely
BRT Sunway Line. It is world's first all-electric Bus Rapid Transit system. Since April 2022, some of the buses are also used at normal bus routes. • Philippines: In May 2018, BYD announced it will deliver ten buses to the Philippines. It will be available through the official Philippine distributor Columbian Motors Corporation (CMC) sales network. • Singapore: •
Go-Ahead together with
Land Transport Authority delivered the first BYD
fully electric bus. It will undergo vigorous testing and be put to service for trial runs for six months. Registered as SG4001J, the bus made its debut on 7 November 2016 on route 17. After that, it went on hiatus, before coming back on route 119 on February. • In 2019, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore ordered 20 BYD K9 with Gemilang Coachwork bodywork. An initial five entered service on 29 July 2020, with all remaining buses entering service by November 2020. These buses are deployed on routes 76, 135, 162, 162M, 265, 807, 807A and 807B. The fleet of BYD K9 buses are operated solely by
SBS Transit, based at Seletar Bus Depot (SEDEP). These 20 BYD K9 units share design similarities with the
Singapore's BYD C6 minibuses operated by private bus companies; and
Malaysia's BYD K9 buses operated by
Rapid Bus in Kuala Lumpur. • In May 2022, BYD offered a Gemilang-bodied BYD K9RC double decker bus to the
Land Transport Authority as part of a trial. It was registered as SG4005Z and entered revenue service on 4 July 2022 with
SBS Transit. Also based at Seletar Bus Depot (SEDEP), SG4005Z was deployed on routes 800 and 851 before being de-registered in 2023; then after being scrapped for the post-trial. • South Korea: In September 2020, BYD won an order for 18 units in the electric bus supply business for Seoul city buses. Delivery started from December 2020. • Taiwan: BYD buses in Taiwan were manufactured by Kaison Green Energy. • Thailand: On 2015, BYD will deliver K9RA buses. It will be available through the official BMTA has partnered with Loxley Plc.
Oceania in Sydney
New Zealand •
NZ Bus is trialling a BYD eBus for up to three months in
Auckland and
Wellington from February 2017. with bodywork by
Gemilang or
Volgren. •
Brisbane:
Brisbane Airport purchased several modified BYD K9 (with three doors) for shuttle service between domestic and international terminals, starting from 2019. •
Sydney:
Transport for NSW purchased BYD D9RAs with Gemilang bodywork for numerous Sydney bus operators including: •
Transit Systems NSW first delivered in July 2019, by 2025 they operate 50 D9RAs at multiple depots •
Busabout Sydney 5 buses entered service in 2021 (now operating with Transit Systems NSW and included in their count) •
Punchbowl Bus Company 4 buses entered service in August 2021 (now operating with
U-Go Mobility) •
Transdev NSW took delivery of 2 D9RAs with Volgren "Optimus" bodywork in 2021 (now operating with
CDC NSW) •
Melbourne: Beginning in 2022, as part of the
Victoria State Government's Zero Emissions Bus trial, a number of Melbourne bus operators began adding BYD D9RAs with Volgren "Optimus" bodywork into their fleet. These include
Kinetic Melbourne (37 buses),
Ventura Bus Lines (27 buses) and
Transit Systems Victoria (9 buses).
Middle East • In August 2012, a contract for 700 electric bus delivery was completed between BYD and Israeli transit company
Dan Bus. The first buses were expected to be deployed in 2012. Based on the market price of 2.1 million yuan (US$330,000), the contract is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion yuan (US$236.65 million). The contract was BYD's largest order to date from a public transport operator outside of China. in cities such as
Bremen and
Bonn,
Helsinki,
Coimbra,
Amsterdam,
Copenhagen,
Milan,
Madrid,
Barcelona,
Athens and
Warsaw. • Finland: on March 12, 2012, BYD and a Finland-based transportation company,
Veolia Transport Finland Oy, reached an agreement for K9s for the Finnish capital city
Helsinki. BYD's K9 buses were to undergo a three-year performance test under Finland's conditions of extreme cold. • Germany: BYD signed a letter of intent with
Frankfurt, Germany to supply three K9s and two charging stations by the end of the first quarter of 2012. The buses were to serve as shuttles at
Frankfurt Airport and along public transportation routes. In October 2020, BYD supplied 22 of K9s for
BOGESTRA and
HCR in the city of
Bochum,
Gelsenkirchen and
Herne. • Italy: in 2014,
ATM, got two K9s for test the electric bus in
Milan.In 2015, the
Piedmont Region, issued the first Italian tender for full-size ebuses, won by BYD: in October 2017 the buses began operating, 20 buses were delivered to
GTT for
Turin city routes and 3 buses were delivered to SUN for
Novara city routes.In 2018, 4 K9s and in 2021, a K7 were delivered to
Busitalia Veneto, a
FS Group company, respectively for the cities of
Padua and
Rovigo. • Netherlands: the island of
Schiermonnikoog in the province of
Friesland introduced six new, long-range, K9s in April 2013 after BYD scored the highest in meeting program goals and won an order for the six buses and a 15-year maintenance contract from a European open bid supported by four major bus manufacturers.35 BYD K9s are in service as airportbus between the terminal and B-gate's at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport since 2015. The busses are adapted for the airport use and charged via a solar powerstation at the airport.Several other public transport authorities throughout the Netherlands have BYD K9s on order. In 2020 250 BYD K9s started operating in the eastern Netherlands, it is the largest electric bus fleet in Europe that was implemented overnight. • Poland: In 2013 the capital city of
Poland, Warszawa (
Warsaw), tested K-9. BYD claims about 3 hours of charging time were not confirmed: the minimum was over 5 hours. 250 km range was found, less than the required 350 km. • United Kingdom: In 2013 two units began operating on two central
London routes; said to be the capital's first fully electric buses.
Transport for London planned to purchase six more BYD buses in 2014. In July 2015,
Go-Ahead London confirmed they would order 51 BYD electric buses with
Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC bodywork. In March 2016, the first of a fleet of 5 double decker electric buses was launched by Metroline with an extended range of 190 miles. In 2016,
Nottingham Community Transport received a batch for the park and ride services. File:Arriva 3006-III.JPG|BYD electric bus on the Dutch island of
Schiermonnikoog. File:Movia bus line 3A on Enghavevej 05.JPG|Movia bus line 3A on Enghavevej at Sønder Boulevard in Vesterbro in
Copenhagen. File:2013 in Bonn. BYD ebus (electrical bus). Rear view 2. Spielvogel.JPG|BYD electric bus test vehicle in
Bonn, Germany. File:BYD bus, Warsaw.jpg|BYD bus in
Warsaw on Ujazdowskie Avenue. File:London General EB1 on Route 507, Victoria.jpg|
London General BYD electric bus at
Victoria. File:MYS-22344 BYD B12 bodied BYD K9 arrived at Stasiun Sudirman 2 bus stop.jpg|alt=|
TransJakarta BYD K9 with B series bodywork in
Central Jakarta File:Электробусы BYD Октябрь 2024.jpg|BYD K9UB Electric Buses in
Baku,
Azerbaijan.
Africa • Kenya: In 2022 BYD shipped 17 K6 buses to Kenya and were deployed for use in
Nairobi after they were leased to local bus companies in Nairobi via
BasiGo. • Mauritius: In 2022 a K6 bus landed in
Port Louis and used for public transport in Mauritius through the National Transport Committee. • Egypt: BYD came to an agreement to supply 15 K9 buses to be used for public transport in
Alexandria. ==Competitors==