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30 natural gas buses ran out of SAIC Tangshan factory for the direction of downtown of Tangshan city. According to official of SAIC Tangshan, the first batch of buses to be delivered is of 60 units.
Green-energy automotive project of SAIC Tangshan in Caofeidian is a strategic cooperative project of green-energy automotive project jointly by SAIC and Tangshan Municipal Government, a essential spot of SAIC in the North of China and a key base for Tangshan city to undertake SAIC industry transfer. SAIC Tangshan is located in middle and small-sized enterprises park in Caofeidian, the first period of which is of 0.39 billion Yuan investment. It was started at the beginning of 2011 and got manufacturing certificate to produce two new kinds of buses.
At the delivery ceremony held in front of office building of SAIC Tangshan, Feng Feng, deputy GM of Tangshan Public Transit, said that Gasification of Tangshan was developing strategy of Tangshan city. Purchasing clean-energy buses would do good to improving air quality of the city. Apart from 500 ordered buses in 2013, 500 more natural gas buses would be purchased in 2014 and 2015, by which buses unqualified in off-gas emission would be eliminated.
In the assembly, our reporter was told that 60 clean-energy natural gas buses would be into operation, which meant that the real formation of automotive industry in Caofeidian had been come to its advent. So far, daily capacity of the company is 8 units. By Nov. 13th of 2013, about 200 buses have run out of the factory. It would be definitely no doubt that 500 buses would be manufactured and delivered. Compared with current diesel bus, natural gas bus is of energy conservation and environment protection, where passengers feel more comfortable.