The Chinese company BYD is one of the biggest players in the world market when it comes to electric buses. It sees an important growth market in the European Union but also sees a major challenge in the new environmental policy. Soon, the European Union will start imposing trade restrictions on polluting products that include the production process abroad. Although BYD has some facilities where the buses are assembled in Europe, there

is some concern that it will have to import these parts with hefty tariffs at higher costs. By doing so, it will lose competitiveness against European players that are also not to be underestimated such as for example Mercedes certainly also DAF. To avoid these risks, BYD wants to have a study conducted (by your company) that examines whether it can move its entire production chain to the south of the Netherlands and thus cover the European market. The Netherlands seems at first a somewhat strange choice when it comes to producing buses, but BYD is not only interested in shifting the inbound value chain to Europe, but also in gaining a stronger position in the logistics market itself and will thus have to cooperate with local governments for the placement of infrastructure. In this way, one hopes to be able to build a more complete value chain and then roll it out in other countries as well.

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