www.chinabuses.org: Recently, Beijing Public Transport Holdings, Ltd. (BPT) intends to place 1029 units of National Ⅴemission Standard buses. It is reported that the order is taking the lead by the Beijing municipal government to drive the Beijing automobile industrial output. Now under the premise negotiation agreement by Foton Bus and BPT, both sides signed the 1029 units of city bus purchasing letter of intent. The purchase order includes large buses that involve 12 m, 13.7 m, 18 m and so on public transport vehicles, and they all meet the National Ⅴemission Standard.

BPT raised the emissions standards of the new car four times which is respectively in 1999, 2002, 2006 and 2010. On January 3, 2011, the first 100 units of National Ⅴemission Standard buses were driving in the Beijing streets which was also the first batch National Ⅴemission Standard buses official put into operation in China.

At present, 20,740 units of buses emission Standard have reached more than National Ⅲ Emission Standard. Among them, 45% of them have already reached National Ⅳ emission Standard. From now on, after two or three years, Beijing will update buses to achieve National Ⅴemission Standard. In addition, the next key goal of the Beijing bus development will be pure electric vehicles.

Source : www.chinabuses.org

Editor : Lily

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