"There are 162 electric buses coming from Ankai in more than 200 ones in actual operation." reflected by Xu Yingchun, the manager of Market Department of Ankai Bus," Apart from 20 Ankai luxury electric buses in operation at Shanghai Expo site, Ankai electric buses ran in Hefei, Dalian, Beijing and Kunming." By far, Ankai is the company with the most national announcements for new energy products.
Concerning the operation of electric vehicles, driving range, price and service life of battery are usually focused. One research says that energy discrepancy and decreasing of cell units showed for electric buses to different degree. Ankai Bus also found that there existed hardness of gradeabilitygrade ability and shunt runningshunt running for prompt acceleration for electric buses in test operation. To solve this problem, it once took into consideration of ultra-capacitor, which can take a large amount of energy very quickly and discharge it fast, but can" t hold an electrical charge for long.
The cooperation of Ankai Bus with Leibo New Energy Auto Technology Limited Company offers new solution for this problem. This company owns the electric vehicle technology of the combination of battery and capacitor. In the meantime, this cooperation makes Ankai electric buses equipped with special features. The purchasing orders from Shanghai,Hefei, Dalian and Kunming improve the market prospect.
The related principal of Ankai Bus said that there were still many problems to be solved for electric buses, just like a endurance running, and the winner will experience a long-term competition.