200 King Long Hybrid City Buses Serve Wuhan City

King Long Hybrid City Buses

In order to improve air quality, Wuhan Government decided to subsidize RMB 1 billion Yuan within three years to replace city buses. 1000 gree city buses are expected to be used in 2012, including 420 clean-energy buses, 300 hybrid and pure-electric buses and 280 above-Nation III diesel buses.

In April 2011, Wuhan Public Transport Group asked four mainstream bus manufacturers for hybrid demo-city-buses to be used in Wuhan, including King Long XMQ6127GHEV4, which turned out to be the best among the four after one-year pilot run. In 2012 open tendering for Wuhan city buses, King Long obtained the order of 200 hybrid ones, which would be delivered in June.

King Long XMQ6127GHEV4 is a newly-designed hybrid city bus with direct parallel hybrid power. Its unique Stop-Go mode could shut down automatically if required to lower the oil consumption and emission. Compared with similar diesel models, King Long XMQ6127GHEV4 tuns out to be low emission, low oil-consumption and low noise.

As the development of King Long in new-energy bus market, King Long buses are sold in Wuhan, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Kunming and Fuzhou, etc. King Long will provide more environmentally-friendly buses to contribute to "low-carbon city bus" in China.