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Chinese electric bus manufacturer BYD (Build Your Dreams) is closing down its assembly plant in France at the end of this year, citing a lack of orders and a 'change in strategy.' The move comes four years after the manufacturer announced it was investing €100m (£84m) in the new facility at a former Michelin plant in Beauvais-Allonne, 100km north of Paris. The aim was to supply mainland Europe with 200 electric buses annually from the 80,000 square metre plant and BYD had promised to create 400 jobs in the region. In the end only a handful of workers were recruited. Ten staff members will now be made redundant. The first French-made BYD buses were supplied to the local Beauvais municipal in December 2018, but after that orders were few and far between. Only 30 vehicles left the factory. |