China's carmaker BYD opened a new plant in Thailand on Thursday, which is its first plant in Southeast Asia, with its eight millionth new energy vehicle (NEV) rolling off the assembly line in the factory.
The plant based in Rayong Province can produce 150,000 passenger vehicles annually. Covering car-making operations including stamping, painting, welding and final assembly, plus a component factory, the plant completed the construction and went into operation in just 16 months.
The eight millionth new energy vehicle also marks that BYD has become the world's first automaker to have eight million new energy vehicles manufactured.
"BYD is recognized in the Thai market in merely two years. It has been a sales champion of pure electric vehicles in Thailand for 18 months since January 2023. Nowadays, one in every three pure electric cars sold in Thailand is a BYD car. We look forward to bringing advanced new energy vehicle technology to Thailand to upgrade its automobile industrial chain," said Wang Chuanfu, chairman and chief executive officer of BYD.
With its expansion in overseas market, BYD has its new energy vehicles sold in more than 400 cities in 88 countries and regions in the world.
"In the first half of this year, BYD sold 1.607 million new energy passenger cars. Among them, more than 203,000 vehicles were sold overseas, a year-on-year surge of 173.8 percent. It has maintained a strong growth momentum," said He Zhiqi, vice president and chief operating officer of passenger vehicles of BYD.
BYD opens its first plant in Southeast Asia
A new batch of China Media Group's (CMG) 8K ultra-high-definition (UHD) live broadcast vehicles for the Paris Olympics was unloaded in the Netherlands on Sunday local time, before heading to France.
In addition to the broadcast van in red, an auxiliary vehicle was also disembarked at the Port of Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe.
With a length of 17 meters, a width of 2.5 meters and a weight of 40 tons, the live broadcast vehicle, carrying state-of-the-art broadcast equipment, has very high requirements on the port's lifting capacity.
To ensure smooth unloading, the Port of Rotterdam convened a pre-ship meeting and specifically designed a customized lifting plan. Prior to the actual lift, over two hours were spent testing and adjusting the lifting equipment.
As planned, the broadcast vehicles will run all the way from Rotterdam to Belgium, and sail to Paris. As a leading broadcaster and the international media organization with the most broadcasting rights for the Paris Olympic Games, CMG is set to orchestrate its largest-scale Olympic Games coverage to date.
A production and technical service team of over 2,000 technicians will be responsible for producing pool signals for the four major events: gymnastics, table tennis, badminton, and rock climbing.
Meanwhile, the live broadcast will last over 400 hours, with more than 11,000 hours of high-quality signals for the competitions broadcast and distributed through television channels and new media terminals.
For the first time abroad, CMG's Olympic broadcast production will be delivered entirely in 4K ultra-high-definition.
CMG broadcast vehicles for Paris Olympics unloaded at Port of Rotterdam
