Golden Dragon Hybrid Bus Updated for Shanghai World Expo

2009-11-16 Source：www.chinabuses.org

www.chinabuses.org: Shanghai will purchase over one thousand new energy buses in the near future for the World Expo in 2010, 150 of which will be hybrid buses, and about 30 units will be bought from non-Shanghai bus builders. Apart from abide by management rules of new energy automobile production admittance and subsidy post by Technology Department and Treasure Department, a bus builder has to pass Shanghai local standards for the hybrid buses serving in Shanghai World Expo if one bus builder wants to be chosen. According to Golden Dragon, they have passed the first two standards, and they held the popularization and introduction conference to get the last “admittance card”.

Ma Gongtuo, director of Shanghai public transport industry association technology committee, declared Golden Dragon passed the standards

Xiamen Golden Dragon hybrid city bus popularization and introduction conference was held in Shanghai on October 27, 2009.

Xiamen Golden Dragon hybrid city bus popularization and introduction conference

Tong Yigong, Xiamen Golden Dragon hybrid city bus popularization and introduction conference, pointed out in the conference, “There are tree points in the conference, the first is that present leaders and exports on public transport have known more about new energy vehicles, especially hybrid vehicles, secondly, it created conditions for Golden Dragon hybrid bus to enter Shanghai public transport market, third, we have more options on hybrid bus builders.”

As introduced by Zhang Yan, general engineer, Xinmen Golden Dragon is always guided by energy-saving and emission-reduction. They started research and development of hybrid buses from 2002, and the third generation hybrid products have been successfully developed in December, 2005, and the buses were put on operation in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou between 2006 and 2007. Currently, Golden Dragon is researching the fourth generation hybrid buses. Golden Dragon new energy buses served Beijing Olympic Games successfully to demonstrate their excellent product R&D technique. According to market feedback and technical suggestions from different regions, Golden Dragon bus has updated engine system, safety etc to provide fuel-saving and emission-reduced new energy city buses to serve Shanghai World Expo.

Mr. Tong giving speech in the conference