On the morning of May, 10, Zhongtong held a seminar to release its newly developed “5+3” electric bus operation mode at Ziyu Hotel in Beijing. A number of major customers of Zhongtong, officials from bus making industry, Sun Qingmin, General Manager of Zhongtong, Jia Kaiqian, Deputy General Manager of Zhongtong attended the seminar.
At the seminar, Sun Qingmin pointed out Zhongtong has become one of the leading new energy bus brands after years’ fast growth. To help its customers solve a variety of pressing difficulties, Zhongtong rolled out “5+3” electric bus operation mode, which is designed to provide better selection, financing, recharging, maintenance, after-sales, spare parts provision, and emergency services for customers.
Zhongtong’s “5+3” electric bus operation mode involves two distinctive parts. First, the five major tailor-made services include manufacturing high quality and highly adaptable bus products according to routes, setting the optimal recharging mode and providing supports for the construction of recharging stations according to mileage and operation hours, providing competitive financial services according to customers’ financing ability, offering life-long unparalleled services according to customers’ business performances, arranging monitoring and precautionary measures according to the bus fleets’ operation status. Besides, the company also makes the three promises to its customers, include lower operating costs, longer quality guarantee and round-the-clock road rescue and technical supports.
The seminar was hosted by Wu Yongqiang, President of Chinabuses.org and an expert in China’s bus industry. Apart from evaluating Zhongtong’s “5+3” electric bus operation mode and giving constructive suggestions, participants also held heated discussions over a number of pressing issues in the electric bus field, such as the major driving force of popularization of electric buses, customers’ anticipation of the governments’ favorable policies, the promotional policies of new energy buses. Officials from industrial organizations, leaders from bus makers and customers have all reached consensus on the existing problems of new energy bus operation and future measures to further promote the application of electric buses.