摘要: |
Wrightbus is gearing up to double production in 2023, from approaching 500 vehicles in 2022 to 1,000, of which more than 80% will be zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell single- and double-deckers. Some will be assembled in Malaysia for customers in Hong Kong and Singapore as they move away from diesel. That is a huge turnaround from where the business was three years ago when Jo Bamford, of the JCB construction and agricultural vehicle dynasty, acquired the UK's second biggest bus builder -owned then by the Wright family - out of administration with a stock of part-built vehicles, some outstanding orders and a workforce down from over 1,300 at the time of the collapse to just 49. |