Mendoza officials visited China's largest electric vehicle factory

With more than 20 factories and 220,000 employees, BYD is one of the largest technology companies in China . The official delegation arrived at the headquarters, headed by the Minister of Economy, Infrastructure and Energy, Martín Kerchner, where they were received by several of the most important leaders of the company.

The visit, which aims to seduce the Eastern society that set up a secondary plant in Mendoza included a visit to industrial buildings and production lines of electric cars, microphones and rechargeable batteries.

"With the approach of this type of industry we want to deepen a relationship that allows us to land a company of this size in Mendoza to advance the technology and development of batteries " said Mr Kerchner.

While the company begins the installation of a collective manufacturing plant, Kerchner believes that it is not there was a obstacle to what Mendoza came to seek. " Lithium is the main input for lithium batteries, whose mines are located in the north-west of the country, so the establishment of a nearby industry considerably reduces the logistics cost of production and eventual export of the product ", badyzed the minister.

The delegation, made up of Emilio Guiñazú, undersecretary of Energy, and Mario Lázzaro, director of ProMendoza, was received by the director of the company, Isaac Attie, by Audrey Li, director of Latina and the sales director of the company, Jonathan Ríos.

" The potential arrival of BYD is also aligned with our strategy of connecting local companies and foreign investors with renewable energies and we hope to be able to advance and clarify the commonalities that we have. find between Mendoza and society, "said Guiñazú.

ByD is for the third year in a row the number one worldwide sales of electronic vehicles with more than 113,000 units. He was born in 1995 as a small business that provides batteries to companies related to cell phones. In 2003, he acquired a car manufacturing plant and began developing prototypes and in 2005 made his first car developed for the market.