{"id":91706,"date":"2021-02-16T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/16\/nexport-announces-exclusive-distribution-and-collaboration-agreement-for-byd-electric-vehicles-in-asia-pacific\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:12:00","slug":"nexport-announces-exclusive-distribution-and-collaboration-agreement-for-byd-electric-vehicles-in-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/16\/nexport-announces-exclusive-distribution-and-collaboration-agreement-for-byd-electric-vehicles-in-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"NEXPORT announces exclusive distribution and collaboration agreement for BYD Electric Vehicles in Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 16, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Nexport Pty Ltd has successfully negotiated a long-term exclusive agreement for the distribution of BYD <b>right<span id=\"spanHghlt294c\">&#8211;<\/span>hand drive<\/b> electric vehicles. BYD Auto Industry Limited is the largest selling electric car company in <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> with sales in 2020 in excess of <span id=\"spanHghltb9ab\">415,000 cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1177\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1437749\/BYD_zoom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1437749\/byd_zoom.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Nexport\/BYD exclusive Asia Pacific agreement for electric cars signed via Zoom with Mr Liu\" alt=\"Nexport\/BYD exclusive Asia Pacific agreement for electric cars signed via Zoom with Mr Liu\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>Nexport\/BYD exclusive Asia Pacific agreement for electric cars signed via Zoom with Mr Liu<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder4678\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1437750\/BYD_CARS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1437750\/byd_cars.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"BYD electric cars to be sold in Australia and Asia Pacific\" alt=\"BYD electric cars to be sold in Australia and Asia Pacific\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>BYD electric cars to be sold in Australia and Asia Pacific<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At a signing ceremony today on <span class=\"xn-person\">Sydney Harbour<\/span>, Mr <span class=\"xn-person\">Luke Todd<\/span>, Managing Director of Nexport Pty Ltd and Mr Liu Xueliang, General Manager of BYD Asia Pacific, signed (via zoom) an exclusive distribution agreement to supply the next generation of BYD passenger and commercial vehicles into the right<span id=\"spanHghltbc33\">&#8211;<\/span>hand drive markets of <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia Pacific<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The European styled and designed BYD passenger models are expected to compete head-to-head with petrol\/diesel models across categories in both performance and price. <span id=\"spanHghlt4db3\">Pre-sales<\/span> orders will be available by end of quarter 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is exciting news for Australian consumers who will soon be able to access <b>affordable, best of class electric vehicles<\/b> in both the passenger and commercial space<span id=\"spanHghlt4c09\">,<\/span>&#034; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Luke Todd<\/span>, Managing Director of Nexport. &#034;The <span id=\"spanHghlt38c6\">right-hand<\/span> markets have been undersupplied in the <span id=\"spanHghlta9a7\">e<\/span>lectric vehicle space and this agreement ensures certainty of local supply in these best of class <span id=\"spanHghlta2a0\">e<\/span><span id=\"spanHghlt2631\">lectric vehicle<\/span>s<span id=\"spanHghlt1c1f\">,&#034;<\/span> Todd continued.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s agreement further cements the existing supplier relationship with Nexport &#038; BYD who already supply electric bus chassis for NSW government buses.<\/p>\n<p><b>About <\/b><b>Nexport<\/b><b>&#160;Pty Ltd<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nexport Pty Ltd is a leading supplier of zero emissions vehicles in the Australian transport market and is the leading supplier on the NSW government panel to provide Electric Buses to NSW. Nexport also owns Electric taxis and is launching a direct to customer electric car portal EVDIRECT. Nexport is part of the TrueGreen Impact Group, a positive impact investment company.<\/p>\n<p><b>About <\/b><b>BYD Auto Industry Ltd<\/b><\/p>\n<p>BYD is a world leading manufacturer of electric vehicles. It is dedicated to providing zero-emission energy solutions. BYD is listed on the <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span> and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, with revenue and market capitalization each exceeding <span class=\"xn-money\">RMB 100 billion<\/span>. <span class=\"xn-person\">Warren Buffett&#8217;s<\/span> Berkshire Hathaway owns 25% of BYD.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder0\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Feb. 16, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Nexport Pty Ltd has successfully negotiated a long-term exclusive agreement for the distribution of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}