BYD Appoints Eva Lerner-Lam to Lead Eastern U.S. Operations

BYD Motors, which produces electric vehicles for conventional and specialized markets has named transportation expert Eva Lerner-Lam as director of eastern U.S. business.

Lerner-Lam, who has spent her 40-year career developing transportation technologies in both the public and private sectors in the United States and China, will build up the operations of the New York-based office and drive regional sales of BYD’s entire lineup of electric vehicles, including but not limited to electric buses and coaches, long-range electric taxis, eTrucks and battery-electric forklifts.

Noted Lerner-Lam, “The time has come for electric vehicles and BYD is ready to meet the growing demand,” Lerner-Lam said. “It’s a very exciting opportunity to take technology that was developed in China—and leveraged and matured in large scale there—and adapt them to American standards, lifestyles and infrastructures.”

Together with Assistant General Manager Carlos Antunes, who has over 30 years of experience in the transportation industry, Lerner-Lam will continue BYD’s international efforts to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure, open regional facilities and plants to create jobs, and deliver not only green vehicles but other green-tech products like energy storage stations.

Founded in Shenzhen, China in 1995, BYD Company Ltd. is global enterprise with a mission to create safer and more environmentally friendly battery technologies. The company produces electric vehicles for conventional and specialized markets and has sold more than 500,000 vehicles in China. BYD is the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries.

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