On Dec.13th of 2013, Li Dusheng, director of Zhongtong Bus Brand Culture Dep. told our journalist that about 1,100 new-energy buses of Zhongtong Bus would be sold in 2013 which would bring about 800 million Yuan of sales revenue and make the new-energy bus sales increase over 600%.
Li Dusheng stated at the 1st China Bus Summit Forum that Zhongtong recently released 2345 Strategy of Energy Saving and New-energy Bus, which meant to focus on buses of energy conservation and new energy and increase market shares of these buses to 40%. Thus, bus of energy conservation and new energy could take up a half of the market leaving the rest half to traditional bus. At present, new-energy buses of Zhongtong are in pilot operation in 23 cities of Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan.
According to the Q3 report of Zhongtong Bus, sales revenue of Zhongtong in the first three quarters is 2.519 billion Yuan. The estimation tells us that new-energy bus contributes 20% of the whole revenue.
Li Dusheng as well told us that Zhongtong had just got plug-in hybrid power bus order of 50 units from Jining Public Transportation, which is the first new-energy auto order in the gap period within the industry. It is expected that annual new-energy bus sales volume would be about 1,100 units.
It is learned that Zhongtong has achieved over 10,000 gas buses, which is the first manufacturer with over 10,000 gas buses accumulatively sold within the industry.