Build Your Dreams (BYD) Company Limited Chinese automaker is interested in setting up a manufacturing unit in Hyderabad. BYD Company representatives called on the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan.
Representatives of the company told that to establish their factory and production unit in Hyderabad to manufacture 100 per cent electric vehicles which run on battery.
The Chief Minister expressed his happiness over this and said that the Government would extend all the help required,” and also expressed his concerns over the alarming pollution levels in his city, saying that day-by-day the pollution due to vehicles was on the increase in various towns and cities..
KCR said there is a need to encourage use of ‘100 per cent electric vehicles’ to make Hyderabad a pollution free city.
He said phase-wise use of electric vehicles would be introduced in The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Telangana State Road Transport Corporation, while private institutions would also be encouraged to use them.
In the first phase, the government would place order for purchase of 500 such vehicles, it added. BYD added that once charged, the vehicles would be able to move for approximately 300 to 400 kilometers and within three hours they can be fully recharged. They informed the Chief Minister that along with the buses they also manufacture cars, autos and trucks.