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I don't have a lot of faith in BYD busses actually working correctly. Proterra seems like the most solid design around, and looking on LinkedIn, it seems like they picked up a lot of people who worked at Tesla when things were going better over there.

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Care to expand on why? It seems they are working correctly as they make over 500,000 vehicles a year whilst Proterra are claiming 375 since inception. [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto#Sales >BYD Auto sold a total of 506,189 passenger cars in China in 2013

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterra,_Inc. >the company has sold more than 375 buses

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