The First Exploration of the Operation of Electric City Buses in China
26 November 2010
www.chinabuses.org: On 24 November 2010, the Shandong Province Electric City Bus Development Symposium hosted by Shandong Province Road Transport Bureau was held in Linyi city, Shandong province. Over 100 representative and journalists from 17 transport companies and various media attended it.
the scene of Shandong Province Electric City Bus Development Symposium
Linyi is a famous old revolutionary base area in China and also a classic example for energy-saving public transport as well as the industrialization of electric city bus. Zhongwen electric vehicles come from this city, which owns the domestic leading technology and the vision of being the world electric bus builder in China. At present, the biggest scale of charging stations for electric vehicles in China even in the world have been built in Linyi.
The attenders visit Shandong Yixing Electric Auto Co., Ltd
The attenders visited the production base of Shandong Yixing Electric Auto Co., Ltd. and Linyi Jiaozhuang Electric Vehicle Charging Station, the seventh station built by State Grid, also the biggest one in China with the most advanced technology, available for the charging of hundreds of buses at the same time.
Linyi Jiaozhuang Electric Vehicle Charging Station
On 12 February 2010, Zhongwen electric city buses and double-deck buses have been operated on No.K10 bus route for demonstration in Linyi. By far, there have been 60 electric city buses in this city and possibly 300 units in operation at the end of 2010.
The attenders visit Shandong Yixing Electric Auto Co., Ltd
Through the monitoring of the operation of 60 Zhongwen electric city buses for almost a half of one year, Zhang Benxin, the General Manager of Linyi Public Transport Company mentioned in his speech that “Through the comparison with diesel bus, 1000 Zhongwen electric buses can reduce the emission of 19585-ton carbon dioxide, 130-ton sulfur dioxide and 123-ton nitric oxide. In addition, Zhongwen electric city buses greatly reduce noise, failure rate and increase comforts.”
Linyi Jiaozhuang Electric Vehicle Charging Station
The operation cost of the Zhongwen electric bus decrease to a big degree, according to the related data. The unit price of Zhongwen electric bus is 1,300,000 Yuan RMB (daily driving range: 200 kilometers; daily power consumption: 220 kilowatt-hour) and the cost for charging is about 165 Yuan RMB per day. The unit price of Zhongwen diesel bus is about 500,000 Yuan (daily driving range: 200 kilometers; daily fuel consumption: 78 liters) and the fuel fees is 484 Yuan. The cost of one electric bus can reduce 319 Yuan for one day and 116,400 RMB for one year than that of one diesel bus.
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Editor : Andrea
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