Details highlight humanistic care Foton Motor's new energy technology makes the Winter Paralympic Games not "cold"

One key to achieve body tilt, convenient for wheelchairs to get up and down; cancel the middle seat of the carriage, change to a wheelchair parking area... In the streets of Beijing in early March, after careful design and transformation, 40 Foton Ouhui buses were converted into welfare vehicles and began to provide services for disabled athletes from all over the world. This is a microcosm of Foton Motor's products and team services for the 2022 Beijing Winter (Paralympic) Olympic Games - empowering products with scientific and technological innovation and serving users with user thinking; at the same time, Foton Motor relies on the layout of the new energy industry, bringing a scientific and technological and green Olympic experience to athletes around the world with new energy products such as hydrogen fuel buses, and the humanistic care in the details makes the Winter Paralympic Games not "cold".

On March 4, the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games with the theme of "The Bloom of Life" was grandly opened, and so far the Chinese team has achieved 8 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze results, leading the winter Paralympic medal table. Foton Motor once again sent Ouhui Bus, which was previously well received by athletes from all over the world during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, to the battlefield and provided connection services throughout the process. In more than ten days, Foton Ouhui has provided a total of 774 racing service vehicles, including 40 professional welfare vehicles. This also makes it the largest bus service provider for the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.

【Welfare car converted from Foton Ouhui Bus】

"Double Olympics" Futian starts the journey again, and green technology enjoys the "Zero Carbon Olympics"

At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Foton Ouhui Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus was selected as one of the Olympic new energy vehicle demonstration vehicles, undertaking the work of Olympic buses and marathon vehicles. 14 years later, more than 1,600 vehicles of Foton Motor went to the Beijing Winter Olympics and successfully completed the escort task of the Winter Olympics. On the occasion of spring, 774 Foton Ouhui buses have once again become service vehicles for the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, providing humanized service guarantees. With the service of Beijing, the "city of two Olympics", Foton Motor adheres to the call of "Science and Technology Winter Olympics, Green Winter Olympics", focuses on the development of new energy, and serves the Winter Olympics with green technology products to allow athletes to enjoy a "zero-carbon" Winter Olympic experience.

As far as the Winter Paralympic Games are concerned, unlike ordinary sports events, disabled athletes need more care and services. The Foton Ouhui welfare car, which is responsible for escorting the Paralympic Games, is transformed from the main model of the daily bus and adds a number of barrier-free measures.

It is understood that before the transformation process of Ouhui Welfare Vehicle, the R&D personnel of Foton Ouhui conducted detailed market research to understand the needs of disabled people. In order to meet the portability and comfort of disabled athletes when riding, the seats in the front of the carriage were removed and transformed into a parking area that can carry 6 wheelchairs at the same time, and a ground fixture was added under the two forward-facing wheelchair areas so that it would not cause violent movement. In addition, Ouhui welfare vehicle also arranged a "pager" linked with the driver dashboard in the wheelchair area and other positions, when the passenger presses the pager, the dashboard will immediately display a "wheelchair"-like icon, prompting the driver to have passengers calling at the moment, so as to facilitate timely understanding of the needs.

【Foton Ouhui Welfare Vehicle-Wheelchair Area】

It is worth mentioning that the upper and lower car doors on the side of the carriage have removed the original steps and changed to a folding ramp design. In addition, the body can be tilted with one button to reduce the height of the wheelchair guide plate at the door from the ground. This is because there are a total of 4 suspension airbags in front and rear of the welfare car, when the athlete gets on and off the bus in a wheelchair, the airbag on the side of the door is deflated, and the airbag on the other side is inflated, and the body can begin to tilt under the premise of ensuring safety, and the whole process takes only a few seconds. And such a batch of welfare vehicles to reform, from the design to the delivery of the car, Foton Ouhui only took less than two weeks.

Since the Winter Olympics, Foton Ouhui's service guarantee team has made every effort to ensure the efficient operation of transportation services during the event. In this Winter Paralympic Games, the Ouhui support team is still on standby for 7× 24 hours, and fully implements pre-operation screening and maintenance, replacement and repair of parts to fully guarantee the operation of the event.

【Winter Paralympic athletes riding on the Fukuda Ouhui Welfare Vehicle】

Technology empowers user thinking

The welfare vehicles designed with humanistic care reflect Foton Ouhui's care for disabled passengers. The rapid acquisition of user needs and the provision of products with quality and quantity are the premises for Foton Ouhui to meet the needs of different groups of people in Olympic events. This market strategy, in Foton Motor, is called the focus of "scenario-based". This makes the engineer and the user no longer "interlaced like a mountain", so that the market voice, the user's voice can be transformed into the workshop production line in the first time.

Focusing on "scenario", in layman's terms, is the user thinking of the enterprise. On the one hand, it is necessary to fully understand the needs of users, predict the problems and further needs that products may face in the future; on the other hand, it is necessary to temper technology, shape product quality, do a good job of customer stratification and meet them one by one. This is also the "killer weapon" that Foton Motor has always occupied the market initiative.

Nowadays, Foton Motor has given a new empowerment on the road of "scenario"-based scientific and technological innovation. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, 515 of the 1223 buses sent by Foton Ouhui used hydrogen fuel cell technology.

These hydrogen fuel tram buses have a fuel cell system efficiency of up to 60% and an energy conversion rate of more than 85%, truly achieving "zero emissions and no pollution". The vehicle can be started at a low temperature, the hydrogen is refueled for 10 minutes, and the cruising range is more than 400 kilometers. In addition, the model is also equipped with Foton Zhike Vehicle Networking System, creating an integrated management platform of "people-vehicle-road".

At the same time, at the end of 2021, Foton Motor officially released the first technology brand in China's commercial vehicle industry - "Galaxy Technology". As a three-dimensional technology platform of "1+3+N" built by Foton Motor after 5 years of tempering, "Galaxy Technology" consists of an efficient trunk logistics technology platform, 3 core advantages and N key technologies. Super power chain, Zhilan electric drive chain, "ant elephant" lightweight technology, Zhike network connection... These technologies that have been previously applied to products will be incorporated into the Galaxy Technology Platform, and more new products will be added to it in the future.

The story of Foton's auto service "Double Olympic" continues. In the future, whether it is serving major events or ordinary users, Foton Motor will always adhere to the customer-centric, firm confidence in the development of technology strategy, deep insight into new opportunities for industrial and market development, drive value creation with scientific and technological innovation, drive value realization with business model innovation, and coordinate with upstream and downstream strategic partners in the industrial chain to provide full-scenario and full-life cycle solutions for commercial vehicle customers.