King Long Promotes Its New Medium Bus Model
Jun 28 , 2022
After nearly one year and a half’s effort from King Long, XMQ6901Y made
its debut in Beijing Bus & Truck Exhibition 2014 on May 14th. It not only
set the forward R&D benchmark for the whole industry with its outstanding
performance, but also embodied King Long’s high expectations on the industrial
transformation and upgrading.
The
change from the forward R&D has been well demonstrated in the sample car
test. Firstly, the targeted parameter has been set before the design.
Therefore, in the process of technical application, the balance among every
part has been achieved to ensure an improved overall performance. Moreover, a
homemade engine, an imported engine, a gas engine and two speed ratio rear
bridges can satisfy various power requirements with a streamlined structure.
Therefore, a great power, which is well above the average industrial level, has
been achieved with low oil consumption. Acceleration time for 0-90km/h was 39s,
far ahead of the average industrial level. In terms of driving stability, it
adopts King Long’s suspended bridge, which is invented by as well as named
after Yang Guoku. The structure innovatively applies L rear bridge, combining
the stability of C rear bridge and the space arrangement of B rear bridge, with
all standard allocation of XMQ6901Y air spring. With upgraded operating
smoothness and driving stability, it well solves the problem of the medium
sized bus’ instability during operation.
Engineers who participated in the test are deeply impressed by the improved
chassis performance. When running on the rainy highway, it changed its lane
fast to avoid danger with emergency braking and turning, The vehicle’s trailing
performance surprised all on-site engineers because in the past this kind of
situation would surely lead to overturn. The surprise was also shared by
another bus driver. In the testing for high altitude performance in Yunnan
province, the first thing the driver told the engineers was "the chassis must
have been replaced since there is an obvious improvement on the driving
stability.”
Now, King Long is gradually realizing its transformation strategy. Some
customers have come to recognize the standards set by XMQ6901Y and purchasing
orders have already arrived before its debut. For instance, after seeing this
bus model, a customer from Guangdong immediately ordered fifteen buses but on
condition that they are manufactured according the given configuration. King
Long did not agree with the customer and provided another solution by
optimizing the previous configuration to change the customer’s original plan
instead of abandoning the previous configuration. Finally, the purchase was
completely carried out according to King Long’s arrangements.