BYD said Wednesday its customers’ battery-electric buses have logged 13 million total miles of zero-emission operations and have saved more than 16,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
The company said in a news release that it is a U.S. record, the equivalent of traveling more than 520 trips around the world.
“This is a landmark that no other electric bus manufacturer has matched,” BYD Vice President Operations North America Patrick Duan said. “Our union-built buses, made in Lancaster, California, are miles ahead on the ground and outpacing the competition every day with clean, innovative and safe technologies.”
More than 50 customers in the U.S. operate BYD buses.
Every zero-emission bus eliminates approximately 1,690 tons of CO2 over a 12-year lifespan, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 13 million miles of zero-emissions travel is the equivalent of removing 13,000 cars from the road, enough to full the parking lot at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, according to BYD.
The Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Southern California, one of BYD’s customers, announced last month it crossed the 3-million-mile mark in zero-emission travel. It estimated it saved 769,231 gallons of diesel fuel, a savings of more than $1 million in fuel costs after paying for electricity.
