New energy power swept the world, and the light passenger class was absent for the first time after many batches
- Due to the continuous decline in passenger flow, the decline in the large and medium-sized bus industry has led to "extreme cold", and the leading enterprises with strong strength have diversified their business by getting involved in the N-class truck/special vehicle industry, and the practitioners have also changed their course on a large scale and sought a new way out, which has a sense of survival with a broken arm. Although the above signals have also been expressed in previous years, they are far less than the firmness and rapidity of the determination in 2021, and the transformation of the traditional bus industry has shown a trend on the string.
- On the other hand, the light passenger industry, in 2021 by the indirect impact of the blue brand light truck new policy and a sharp rise, but throughout the year, there are very few new product declarations, the market end of the red fire and the product end of the cold silence in stark contrast, this batch does not have any basic new product declaration, showing a clear "inner volume" trend.
This batch of M class bus basic new products presents the following characteristics:
- In addition to the special school bus that does not allow "electric shock" and the special new product of Dongfeng Special Automobile, the remaining 28 traditional bus new products are NEVs, including BEV 26 models and FCV 2 models.
- The traditional strong "bus + seat" two categories accounted for a total of nearly 90%, of which: 57% of the bus class, large > medium-sized > light; seat class 30% of the proportion, bus type > medium-sized > large, especially in the name of "city bus" to declare the announcement of the 4 new products as the most, which also reveals the future way out of the seat bus, that is, dilute the color of the transport franchise, actively integrate into the public transport transformation, and regard themselves as one of the alternative ways of public travel, rather than the only.
- The 6-character basic light passenger was absent for the first time after many batches, and there was no new product declaration. As an indispensable part of the light commercial vehicle LCV, M1/M2 light passenger is not a "come-to-come" industry, even if the newcomer solves the problem of the product from scratch (such as the Wanbao system restructured light customer), but still needs a long-term accumulation of sales system and brand awareness, as well as timely technological upgrading to be able to benefit, for the quick profit is not a short and fast "good" investment project.
Yutong E7 large "Xiaoyu", Geely Interstellar marched into the 8-meter passenger
Yutong Bus declared the ZK6706BEVG2 pure electric low-entry city bus of the large "Xiaoyu" intelligent bus in this batch, the largest product after the Hager Qingyuan KLQ6656GAEV series. The car describes itself as "a new product formed by lengthening the wheelbase and length and widening the width of the published ZK6606BEVG1C pure electric low-entry city bus". Its length of 7005mm according to the new standard can still be included in the category of medium-sized buses, wheelbase 5280mm comparable to the conventional 10-meter class large bus, but the width of 2110mm is still a narrow body structure of the bus level, fortunately compared to the E6S's 2060mm has been widened, through the comparison of the two car front and rear wheelbase parameters can be seen as the origin of the widening, which uses three groups of front and rear leaf springs + airbag composite suspension, in the chassis architecture has been reconstructed. The car adopts 850/875mm of front and rear suspension and front and rear single wheel 235/75R17.5 structure, considering that the tire diameter is only about 770mm, it can be said that the industry's long-conceived "standardized zero suspension long-axis passenger platform" is realized, and it is similar to the hot skateboard chassis (or even further). The car GVW = 8.56 tons, the maximum passenger capacity of 17 seats / 41 people, the overall use of low entrance structure, the back hill 4 people in front of the set of steps structure, the penultimate row of seats directly fixed on the steps. The car is equipped with NINGDE era LFP power battery, Yutong Bus TZ220XSYTB89 drive system, integrated electric drive axle, power 65/120kW, peak 355N.m @ 12000rpm, the maximum speed of 69km/h.
Following Sanlong's Golden Travel Star/Golden Dragon Run/Haige Qingyuan, yutong 6-meter "Xiaoyu" E6S has also been launched in batches in Shenzhen Bus Group, joining the microcirculation bus battle group, and has carried out exploration of "light intelligent bus" with Zhongtong Ruitong V6, CRRC Times V5, BYD B6, ZTE Baichen and other products. From the perspective of the product itself, its standardized and modular characteristics are very obvious, but because it is necessary to consider the balance of economy and practicality, rather than blindly pursuing the configuration of tall, it remains to be seen whether such products can finally adapt to the market.
Geely Commercial Vehicles declared the 8-meter U8E series of interstellar buses in this batch, which is the first time it has entered the field of chinese passengers after the large-scale seat platform U11E/F, including Geely Sichuan DNC6820BEV1/21 pure electric bus and Shanxi New Energy JHC6820BEVG11 pure electric city bus A total of 3 new products. The series selects the entry products of the 8-meter class passenger, the length is 8245mm, the width is 2480/2510mm, the wheelbase is 3.9 meters, the GVW = 14 tons, the front and rear air suspension, the maximum passenger load is 32/36 people (double / single door), equipped with Ewell Hubei / Ningde era LFP power battery, CRRC Zhuzhou TZ380XS016B direct drive system, power 120/240kW, peak 2800N.m @ 3000rpm, of which the bus product belongs to the city bus without a standing area , so it can break through the upper limit of 69km/h, and the maximum speed can reach 90/100km/h. The remote U8 platform uses the new headlights (similar to but different from the Shenlong 3 Series/CRRC C08), fog lights and front bumpers, the side circumference can choose dagger type or S type decorative parts, the rear circumference adopts the same headlight group as the U11, and the local details are adaptively reset. Geely Interstellar Bus currently has two series of city bus C series and seat bus U series, which should be the meaning of City and Urban.
Dongfeng Special Automobile 6 meter special bus, Guangxi Shenlong + Yuchai FC engine
Dongfeng Special Automobile declared the EQ6605ZT6D bus in this batch, which is the fourth special bus platform product that can be sold. The car is 5990mm long, 2340mm wide, has a wheelbase of 3.9 meters, GVW = 11 tons, front 2 rear 3 leaf spring suspension, 285/70R19.5 tires, rear single-wheel off-road drive structure. The car adopts its own EQ6590KZ6T three-class chassis, retains the flat-headed cab structure of the N-class truck, the front windshield is slightly inclined, forming a certain angle, and the main body of the headlights is the same as the H13 series city bus of Kaiwo Automobile, but the styling elements are rearranged and combined. The cab retains the main and sub-driver doors, according to the passenger compartment structure for the replacement of the cabin, the maximum 19 seats, the rear of the front wheel to open the hinged passenger door, the bottom of the luggage compartment, the rear circumference optional single open / double door and a variety of opening structure, optional glass on the door or fully enclosed tailgate. The car is matched with Dongfeng Cummins 6.2L, 210 hp diesel engine, with a maximum speed of 90/79km/h. Overall, the car is similar to the off-road caravan style, presumably there are different uses, follow-up authors will give tracking monitoring in business travel articles.
Guangxi Shenlong, as a key recommended enterprise in Guangxi, is now supported by the auto investment company under the Nanning State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, coupled with the assistance of Dongxu Optoelectronics and Shanghai Shenlong headquarters, it is also actively carrying out product territorial transformation, and this batch has declared HQK6105UFCEVU1 fuel cell city bus. While retaining the rear wall of the Shenlong New 5 Series, the car has also been separately expanded for the "bus tail sealing structure" with local characteristics in Nanning, and the appearance is extremely recognizable.
On October 20, 2021, the car investment company under Nanning Production and Investment Group signed a memorandum of cooperation with Yuchai Core Blue New Energy Power Technology Co., Ltd.; on December 21 of the same year, Yuchai successfully ignited and operated stably on the YCK05 series hydrogen internal combustion engine tested by Beijing Institute of Technology, thus officially releasing China's first commercial vehicle hydrogen-fired engine, which can be widely used in bus, municipal, sanitation, logistics and distribution scenarios. This time Guangxi Shenlong also integrated the hydrogen energy resources in Guangxi, the new product uses Yuchai core blue fuel cell engine, matching Shanghai Jie hydrogen fuel cell + Ningde era LFP power battery, self-use TZ400XS120U direct drive system, power 120/240kW, 2800N.m @ 3200rpm. In the future, if the product can be launched in batches in the Nanning bus market, it will be an excellent hydrogen energy industry chain integration and demonstration application.
The 8m/10.5m new products go hand in hand, and the vientiane & Hagrid cooperation is expanding
From the perspective of the length of the new product segment:
- The 8m8 models and 10.5m 9 models of this batch maintain a go hand in hand, of which the latter are all new bus structure products, the former is mainly based on seat structure, especially the "seat bus transit" new products are the most.
- The new bus products cover six subdivisions of 6.6-12m, and the length Min is WS6655WEVJ0C pure electric city bus, L=6540mm, that is, the OEM products of the Golden Travel StarWay series. Hubei Wanshan has carried out a full range of product declarations after cooperating with Xiamen Golden Travel, and this batch also has two new product declarations of Chuanliu series WS6855WEVJ0C and WS6105WEVJ0C pure electric city buses, which have been sold in batches in Xiaogan, Hubei Province.
- The seat class is only 8m and 10.99m two subdivision lengths, of which Weichai Yaxing declared the X9 series of public transport YBL6119GHBEV5 pure electric city bus, Yutong used the ZK6117EVC6/7 three-class chassis to declare two new 7 series pure electric buses, which seems to remind the production of 10.99 meters is the dividing line between the half-load and full-load structure of the operating bus.
Shanghai Vientiane began to work with Hagrid Bus to declare the SXC6860GBEV pure electric city bus using the Azure series OEM, and this batch continued to use the Haige Tuyue series of passenger restructuring to declare the SXC6821GBEV pure electric city bus. The length of the car 8195mm, front and rear air suspension, the maximum 38 seats (single door), in the industry is also a leading level, equipped with Ningde era LFP power battery, Zhejiang CRRC Shangchi 180kW drive system, the maximum speed of 100km / h, the same seat structure public transport new products.
Shanghai Vientiane independent productSXC6112GBEV3 pure electric low-floor city bus adopts BMT subway bus product mode, with a length of 10.68 meters, a wheelbase of 5.05 meters, a maximum of 35 seats/88 people, equipped with Ningde era LFP power battery and disc hub power double wheel independent suspension system, which is at the middle level compared with the maximum 33 seats/91 and 39 seats/86 people of the two existing products.
Weichai Yaxing's typical "variant car", super bus & blue diamond passenger evolution case
This batch of Weichai's Yaxing Bus declared two "variant cars" JS6828GHBEV/1 pure electric city bus, which are difficult to accurately classify because two different structures can be selected on the same announcement, so the structural characteristics in the main view of the announcement are distinguished. Specifically:
- The common parameters of the two new products: the length of the car is 8.2 meters, the width of the car is 2.26 meters comparable to the conventional farmer bus, compared with the conventional 2.45/2.5 meters is an obvious narrow body structure, the non-air-conditioned basic car is 3.05 meters high, slightly higher than the conventional medium-sized bus of the same level, GVW = 10.6 tons, the curb weight is 6.8/6.5 tons (high/low configuration), the front 3 rear 4 leaf spring suspension, 215/75R17.5 tires, the rear two-wheel drive, equipped with ningde era LFP power battery, Yaxing 120kW drive system.
- JS6828GHBEV1 adopts a short front suspension structure similar to a super bus, and the middle/rear double swing door structure is similar to the layout of the traditional china bus, with a wheelbase of 4.9 meters, a front and rear overhang of 1.2/2.1 meters, and a rated passenger capacity of 29 seats/58 people, which should be a large "super bus" variant of the bus class. The car adopts a lower side wall window line and a rear windshield height, which improves the lighting effect of the carriage, better combines the characteristics of bus station people and seats, and has more echoes with the Ministry of Communications advocating bus postal road distribution.
- JS6828GHBEV1 is a typical seat structure publicity announcement, using front /middle single external swing door structure, with a bottom luggage compartment, wheelbase 4.3 meters, front and rear suspension 1.8/2.1 meters, rated passengers 24-32 people, belongs to the city bus without standing area. The car retains more of the blue diamond series styling style of Yaxing, which is more suitable for the public transportation transformation of short-distance passenger lines.
Compared with the above two structures of the new products can be seen:
- The former is basically similar to The JS6680GHBEV pure electric city bus of Yaxing in the early years, that is, the 6-meter super bus popular in the industry when the pure electric explosion in 2015 adopts a long-shaft short suspension structure, the length of the car is 6.84 meters, the width of the car is 2.26 meters and the previous new product, the wheelbase is 4.05 meters, the front and rear suspension are 1.2/1.59 meters, the right side of the middle door and the left side safety door are set, and there is air suspension and front 3 rear 4 leaf spring suspension options. The new product can be understood as lengthening the wheelbase and rear suspension on the basis of the original chaoba products, adding backdoors, and obtaining the second new energy subsidy through the length "leapfrog", while increasing the passenger carrying capacity.
- The latter is a variant of Yaxing Commercial Vehicle Blue Diamond Zhongke, which is more similar to some of the announced products, such as the YBL6818GHBEV pure electric city bus that is still available for sale. However, this new product continues to shrink the narrow body to 2.26 meters, and the front and rear wheel tracks have been narrowed and adjusted, retaining the rated passenger capacity of up to 32 seats, and canceling the approval of the standing area. In addition, narrow-body customers are rare in the industry, and similar products have been difficult to say successful and have few sales (only Hubei and other places have a small amount of sales), and now whether this kind of seating products that emphasize economy can be recognized by the market again remains to be seen. (End)
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