RIDE Mobility
RIDE Mobility[1] is the U.S. and Canada spinoff of BYD[2]. The company assembles and manufactures HD/MD battery electric school buses, transit buses and trucks under the RIDE brand at its 550,000 square-foot facility in Lancaster, California. It is headquartered in Pasadena, California[3]. A third facility is located in Ontario, Canada.
Among the agencies and contractors using RIDE branded buses are: ZUM in Oakland[4], California; AVSTA, in Lancaster, California; the Port of Oakland;[5] Somis[6], California and LADOT.
RIDE employs about 500 members of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation workers Union, Local 105. Together they entered into the first-of-its kind Community Benefits Agreement that gives preference in hiring to single parents, the formerly incarcerated, veterans and others who face traditional barriers to employment.
RIDE has plans to expand its footprint in the Antelope Valley with a second 600,000 square-foot facility that will create as many as 400 additional manufacturing jobs[7]. Construction on the facility has been delayed.
The company was founded in 2023 as an American spinoff of BYD. In 2025, RIDE took over BYD's U.S. truck business.
References
- ↑ "RIDE". RIDE. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ "BYD|RIDE". Empower Innovation. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ editor (2023-06-19). "THE WIRE CHINA : BYD's Big Moment". Automobility. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ "The country's biggest electric school-bus fleet will also feed the…". Canary Media. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ Skantz, Kaley (Port of Oakland). "Oakland Airport commissions first electric buses". portofoakland.com. Retrieved June 26, 2025. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ searlecg (2024-04-09). "RIDE.co Expansion". Lancaster Economic Development. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
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