page_title: BYD K9
section_title: North America
hierarchical_section_title: BYD K9 / Global launch / North America
caption_attribution_description: English: The Stanford Marguerite shuttle waiting for passengers at the Palo Alto Caltrain station
context_page_description: The BYD K9 is a battery electric bus manufactured by the Chinese automaker BYD Auto, powered with its self-developed lithium iron phosphate battery, featuring the longest drive range of 250 km on one single charge under urban road conditions.
  The first BYD battery electric bus was manufactured on September 30, 2010 in Changsha city of Hunan province. It followed models like F3DM, F6DM and e6. K9 has a 12-meter body length and 18-ton weight with one-step low-floor interior. It is reportedly priced at 2–3 million yuan. It has been running and/or tested in China, India, Japan, Hong Kong, U.S., Colombia, Chile, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Aruba and Singapore. More than 200 K9s in service in Shenzhen had accumulated over 9,216,000 km by the end of August, 2012.
  In both 2011 and 2012, BYD obtained orders from amounting to 1200+ units. The company extended its production base in Tianjin, China at the end of July, 2012 and may plan to manufacture in Brazil and Windsor, Canada. BYD built and operates an electric bus factory in Lancaster, California, US. The new factory started production in October, 2013.
context_section_description: 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.
  BYD has supplied the Los Angeles Metro system with buses since 2015. A 2018 investigation by the Los Angeles Times found 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 Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado ordered 36 BYD buses for use on their 16th Street Mall service, called Free MallRide.
  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.
caption: A North American-spec BYD bus with Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.
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