Foton Sets to Sell 75 Hybrid Buses to Taiwan
2009-06-23 Source：english.chinabuses.com
Summarize：English.chinabuses.com: Beiqi Foton Motor has recently secured an order from a bus service company in Taiwan for 75 hybrid AUV buses. This will be the first batch of Foton hybrid AUV buses to be sold ...
English.chinabuses.com: Beiqi Foton Motor has recently secured an order from a bus service company in Taiwan for 75 hybrid AUV buses. This will be the first batch of Foton hybrid AUV buses to be sold outside mainland China. It is reported that the new bus fleet will be put into service in Taipei in Feb. 2010.
Foton AUV hybrid bus goes off production line
WU Zhongxi, General Manager of a Taiwan-based bus service company, disclosed that it is entrusted by Taipei Municipal Government to buy new energy buses from mainland. After a comprehensive research, it found that Foton AUV hybrid buses are not only equipped with state-of-art technologies, but are also reasonably priced. The General Manager also pointed out that the first batch of 75 buses worth of RMB 75 million (about USD 10.9719 million) is just the beginning of its business cooperation with the mainland bus builder and it will continue to expand its Foton AUV hybrid bus fleet to over 700 units in the near future.
Foton AUV hybrid bus on display at an exhibition
In addition, Foton Motor is in talks with auto sales companies from Britain and the United States about exporting the hybrid AUV buses to these two markets. Foton hybrid buses are likely to be exported to more other overseas markets in the future.
Foton fuel cell bus in trial operation in Beijing
Since its production started at the end of 2007, the hybrid version of Foton's AUV bus has come into public transportation service in some Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shenzhen, but it hasn't been exported yet.
The bus service operator from Taiwan and Foton Automobile sign the procurement contract at a conference recently held in Beijing
The Foton AUV buses are made by Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. AUV Bus Company, which was established in 1996 as a branch company of Beiqi Foton Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Beijing, the Foton bus company has several manufacturing bases in different provinces in China.
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