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"“At this moment I can already say that 100% of city buses are already electric
in China, and they are already going from EV to second generation EV, not from
diesel to EV.”
That comment from Kent Chang, the Asia-Pacific CEO for China’s Yutong best
underlines the extraordinary gaps in the road to electric transport in a
country like Australia to what has already occurred in China.
Yutong is the world’s largest bus maker by sales volume, and recently invited
The Driven to China as part of their Asia-Pacific Standards Exploration
Journey. It’s a brand most people have never heard of, even though it is the
number 2 provider of buses in Australia, behind Volvo.
On the visit to Yutong’s headquarters in Zhengzhou, Henan province, we got to
see their world leading factory, extensive testing facilities and also rode in
some of their autonomous buses.
I was aware of Yutong after reading a previous article written by Sam
Parkinson, and listening to Sam’s podcast interview last year with Kent Chang
from Yutong. However, this trip was particularly enlightening for someone like
me who usually focuses on passenger electric vehicles, and knew very little
about buses beforehand."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
