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"There are over 200 electric buses in operation in China and 162 units of them are produced by Ankai Bus." said Xu Yingchun, the Market Manager of Ankai Bus on 4th March. "Since 2003, we have produced the new energy buses and our electric buses run in Hefei, Shanghai, Dalian, Beijing, Kunming and Zhuzhou. " Xu showed that in fact Ankai Bus takes the most although there are many new energy vehicle builders. In February, 14 Ankai Best buses obtained the order of the electric tourist buses. During the Dalian Davos Forum 2009, Ankai Best electric buses first show and serve our state leaders.
Ankai Best electric tourist bus
One month ago, 14 Ankai electric buses won the bidding of Shanghai World Expo.In the end of 2009, 30 Ankai HFF6120G03EV electric buses all launched and were equipped for the Hefei public transport system. The first pure electric coach route appears in Hefei.
The related staff said that "30 buses can drive 314km with charging of 90 kwh each time. While the ordinary buses can run 250km for a day. So once charging is able to afford to one whole day"s operation."
From the respect of operation cost, a diesel bus consumes 40L or so per a hundred kilometers. That is to say, it takes 100L if driving 250km for a day. The fuel cost is about ￥600 yuan if the price of diesel oil is 6 yuan/L. And the operation cost of electric bus is no more than ￥50 yuan when it spends ￥0.5 yuan/kwh. The cost advantage of new energy buses is obvious.However, the price of the new energy buses and related charging is still not advantageous for the promotion.
Ankai new energy buses serving the Davos Forum.
In Xu Yingchun"s opinion, the biggest difficulty for the electric bus builders is "energy control" in technology. "It is an unsettled problem how to control the strong electricity (600 amps.) during the starting stage." And the technology of Ankai Bus is the energy control.
Currently, there are two production lines for Ankai Bus with the annual production of 1000 units. Xu indicated that " We predict that the gross profit level of relevant products will improve when our joint venture company with Shanghai Leibo formally works in next year."
In April 2009, Ankai Bus signed agreement with Ruihua Group Shanghai Leibo New Energy Auto Technology Limited Company (Shanghai Leibo for short) and planed to set up new energy vehicles and parts production base in Hefei. The new joint venture assemblies electric vehicles and develops hybrid power and other new energy vehicle products.
Based on the plan of Ankai Bus, the annual production capacity of new energy buses will come to 3000 units, which accounts for 15%-20% of the whole production.
"There are over 200 electric buses in operation in China and 162 units of them are produced by Ankai Bus." said Xu Yingchun, the Market Manager of Ankai Bus on 4th March.
One month ago, 14 Ankai electric buses won the bidding of Shanghai World Expo. The main objective of Ankai Bus is the city public transport system. But there are too much capital to purchase new energy buses." said the related Ankai staff mentioned above. "In the meantime, the local public transport system is observing the safety and operation of new energy vehicles. "As for the further marketization, it requires the adequate financial subsidy and the improvement of the product quality consistency.