PUBLIC transportation company Green SM has entered North America with the official launch of an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles, California.

The move turns the United States into the ninth market for the Vietnamese transport provider. The platform operates entirely on VinFast battery-electric vehicles, putting its operational system directly into a busy transit market.

This taxi deployment closely follows VinFast’s announcement at the APTA TRANSform & EXPO in Chicago that it will introduce its electric buses to the American public transit market through a partnership with NexMove.

That commercial bus platform targets city transit systems, municipal operations, and high-capacity transport corridors. Meanwhile, establishing passenger operations in Los Angeles gives the company an active test ground to demonstrate real-world battery endurance, turnaround times, and fleet reliability on busy local streets.

The California entry matches Green SM’s broader expansion across several core regions. Since starting in Vietnam in 2023, the fleet expanded into Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Kazakhstan, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

“The United States represents an important milestone in Green SM’s growth journey. We are not simply expanding into a new market. We aim to build trust with customers, drivers and local communities, one journey at a time,” Hoang Thanh Hang, CEO of Green SM in the U.S. said.

Company data shows its global vehicles have completed roughly eight hundred fifty million rides and logged nearly six billion kilometers. These operations saved an estimated eight hundred thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

In Los Angeles, the company uses a fleet of VinFast VF 8 crossover models.

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