In 2015, China"s new energy vehicle industry witnessed an explosive growth. For the whole year, the nation produced and sold a total number of 330,000 units new energy buses. In the meantime, the country"s new energy vehicles reached nearly 500,000 units, becoming the largest new energy vehicle market in the world. According to some sources, among the top ten new energy vehicle manufacturers in the world, four companies are from China.
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Yutong won 2015 China"s National Science Progress Second Award. Wan Xinming, Vice President of China"s Automobile Engineering Institute, spoke highly of the Energy-saving and New Energy Bus Key Technology Research & Development and Industrialization project led by Yutong, saying the bus maker has overcome three major technological bottlenecks in the area of new energy buses and it has made significant contributions to the popularization of electric buses, plug-in buses and hybrid buses.
China awards its highest prize in the science field to Yutong, which sends a positive message to the public. China is now undergoing a fast transition in its economic development. Against such a backdrop, Yutong is fully committed to independent research and development. By attaching paramount significance to innovation, Yutong has already mastered the key technologies in new energy vehicles and it has pushed the world bus-making industry to a new historical height.
Now in the field of new energy bus industry across the world, China has already gained a solid position as the leading energy-saving and new energy bus enterprise Yutong has made many advances ahead.
A few years ago, China became the world"s largest new energy bus market. In 2015, China sold about 70,000 units new energy buses, way ahead of the other countries in the world. Now, only ten bus makers across the globe have an annual production volume of 10,000 units new energy buses. Yutong alone boasts an annual production volume of over 20,000 units new energy buses.