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Zhongtong Bus Promotes Jinan to be New Energy City

2010-04-22    
Zhongtong LCK6124EVC hybrid power buses are applied in No. K107 bus route in Jinan. We interviewed some passengers, drivers, engineers and offcials to get their opinions about this model.

 

Passenger: "Light noise, no feel of diesel"

 

Zhongtong LCK6124EVC hybrid power buses are applied in No. K107 bus route in Jinan. In our interview, many passengers spoke highly of the comfortable riding of Zhongtong buses on this route. Miss Wang said that "It is quite, small vibration and no feeling of diesel when riding this new model. Moreover, the low floor is rather convenient." Xiao Wang, a student showed that it was impressive of the fashion appearance, spacious interior of Zhongtong buses.

 

Driver: "Simple operation, low labor intensity and fuel-saving"

 

Master Li, a driver said in the interview that Zhongtong LCK6124EVC hybrid power buses on No. K107 route ran four roundtrips (single trip: 19.2 kilometers) each day and it was regulated to refill every three days. "It is convenient for our operation due to automatic shift. The maintenance service is prompt if anything wrong." said she. At present, there are 100 hybrid power buses in total for Jinan Public Transport Company, including 80 Zhongtong buses.

 

Auto Engineer: "the localization procedure of core components is good."

 

Zhongtong Bus is one of the earliest bus builders, developing new energy buses. Gao Zhenbo, the engineer of Technology Center of Zhongtong Bus introduced that the current Zhongtong hybrid power buses were developed by domestic many universities such as Tsinghua University and some institutions. Zhongtong Bus has many years" cooperation with Jinan Public Transport Company and knew well of the actual road condition and environment in Jinan so that the effect of energy-saving hybrid power buses could be fully shown. 

 

Administrative Authorities of Government: "New energy public transport for full consideration"

 

One principal of Jinan administrative authorities of public transport indicated that the government applied new energy public transport with full consideration: firstly, as a provincial capital, the environment improvement of Jinan was required. Secondly, public transport was one of important projects for China"s 11th National Games. Jinan purchased hybrid power buses and CNG buses in response to national appealing of energy conservation. Thirdly, the application of new energy bus was one of the top-priority projects due to its special geographical environment and environment-protection in Jinan.