HAIPHONG, Vietnam : Vietnamese carmaker VinFast on Saturday began handing its first batch of 100 all-electric sport utility vehicles to local customers, with U.S. deliveries of the vehicle due to begin as soon as December.
"The first batch of 5,000 VF8 units will be for U.S. and North American markets. Mass production will start from next week," VinFast's global chief executive Le Thi Thu Thuy told Reuters on the sidelines of a delivery ceremony at its plant in Vietnam's northern province of Haiphong. The company has registered almost 65,000 reservations globally, and it expects to sell 750,000 EVs per year by 2026, starting with the VF8 and VF9 all-electric SUVs.