Self-driving hydrogen fuel bus unveiled at the 100 People's Meeting Whose car?

With the issuance of the "Medium- and Long-term Plan for the Development of hydrogen energy industry (2021-2035)", the topic of hydrogen energy has once again rushed to the "hot search" and become the focus of attention.

On March 25th, the China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum was grandly opened, and Yutong Bus's autonomous hydrogen fuel bus and Xiaoyu 2.0 were grandly unveiled in the forum exhibition area, which received the unanimous attention of the guests and leaders.

At the "Commercial Vehicle Sustainable Development Forum", Li Gaopeng of Yutong Bus delivered a speech on the theme of "Fuel Cell Commercial Vehicle Industry Development Practice and Trend Prospect", taking stock of the current situation, judging the trend, and providing suggestions for the high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry from the multi-dimensional aspects of energy strategy, technological innovation, demonstration application, top-level design, etc.

Focus on energy strategy to activate industrial potential and empower the "hydrogen era"

Globally, hydrogen energy is known as the "ultimate energy source of the 21st century". Among them, Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries have taken hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology as an important direction of the energy technology revolution and an important part of the future energy strategy, and have entered the system implementation stage.

On March 23, the mainland's "Medium- and Long-term Plan for the Development of Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)" was officially issued. Under the guidance of the new policy, the status of hydrogen energy as the "main body of energy consumption" has been substantially confirmed, the diversified consumption patterns of hydrogen energy are expected to be completely "activated", and the industrial development will usher in an "acceleration period".

Li Gaopeng said: "As an important application and technological commanding height in the field of transportation, pure electric vehicles are suitable for urban, short-distance and other scenarios, while fuel cell vehicles have short hydrogenation time and higher energy density, which is more suitable for increasing application in the field of medium- and heavy-duty, medium- and long-distance commercial vehicles." The two will complement each other and coexist for a long time, jointly helping to electrify vehicles and reduce the carbon of energy. ”

In terms of hydrogen energy applications, Li Gaopeng said: "The mainland hydrogen energy development route has distinct characteristics, through demonstration projects, driving core technology breakthroughs, and gradually realizing the independent and controllable industrial chain, and the market-oriented development of hydrogen energy is maturing." Yutong will take bus products as the first opportunity, adhere to the card, passenger and simultaneous, and drive the products of all fields of commercial vehicles to the hydrogen era. ”

In terms of buses, in 2014, Yutong obtained the first fuel cell bus qualification certification in China, and completed the research and development of three generations of hydrogen fuel bus products; in 2021, Yutong fuel cell truck production qualification was officially approved, and the development of heavy traction, urban dumping/mixing, sanitation, logistics and other product samples was successfully completed, and the layout was increasingly perfect.

At the scene of the 100-person meeting, Yutong autonomous driving fuel cell bus debuted, which can be called another model for the innovation and development of hydrogen energy products.

Yutong autonomous driving fuel cell bus, using electro-electric hybrid system scheme, hydrogen charging for 10 minutes, endurance of 500km; the vehicle has "automatic acceleration and deceleration, automatic steering, vehicle road coordination, automatic recognition of traffic lights through intersections, automatic pit stops, automatic parking" and other functions, to achieve L3 level automatic driving capabilities, has attracted much attention from the industry.

Innovative hydrogen energy ecology, multiple measures at the same time, to promote hydrogen energy "multi-dimensional advancement"

At present, the global hydrogen energy industry is booming, and product competition is becoming increasingly fierce. From "running with", "running together" and even "leading" in the future, what is the secret of Yutong Group?

In Li Gaopeng's view, in the global hydrogen energy "race", the key to victory is not speed, but safety and reliability.

Li Gaopeng analyzed: "At present, the mainland hydrogen fuel cell vehicle industry has fully entered the initial stage of cultivation. We must continue to do a good job in basic technology development, market research, product planning, product development and verification and other core work, seize the opportunity of national demonstration, and promote the full-scenario demonstration and large-scale promotion of hydrogen fuel cell commercial vehicles. With the three-step strategy of 'demonstration city - key city - national promotion', we will give full play to the leading effect of demonstration enterprises. ”

At present, after three generations of product iterative research and development, the new generation of Yutong hydrogen fuel cell bus products have achieved remarkable results in terms of "system service life improvement, vehicle energy consumption reduction, low temperature start", etc., and have fully met the diversified environmental operation needs of plains, mountains and plateaus.

In Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and other regions, Yutong batch fuel cell buses have been put into operation, the safe operating mileage has exceeded 35 million kilometers; it is worth mentioning that under the actual working conditions in various places, the hydrogen consumption of Yutong's 10 meters and 12 meters models has dropped to less than 5kg/100km.

During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games, 185 Yutong hydrogen fuel cell buses served Beijing, Yanqing, Zhangjiakou and other competition areas, efficiently completed the service guarantee task, and won the high praise of the Olympic Organizing Committee.

Favorable policies and product advancement - the blueprint of "hydrogen" has been drawn. However, it is undeniable that the large-scale promotion of hydrogen fuel buses still has multiple tests such as "infrastructure, supporting facilities, and core technology research".

In this regard, Li Gaopeng suggested that we should further clarify the competent departments for hydrogen energy, speed up the approval process, increase subsidies for fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen refueling stations, expand the scale of the industry, and attract more consumers and operators to enter the market.

At the same time, in the field of catalysts, proton membranes and other card necks, Li Gaopeng suggested that special funds should be set up to strengthen the coordination of "production, learning and research", quickly break through key core technologies such as vehicle life and high-power fuel cells, and comprehensively help the autonomy and high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry chain.

Looking forward to the future, the global hydrogen energy industry will surely usher in a new round of cross-domain development.

Guided by the dual carbon goal, keeping up with the pulse of the times and focusing on the frontier of hydrogen energy , Yutong Group will continue to overcome difficulties, deepen core technological innovation, and embrace the advent of the hydrogen energy era with the attitude of "explorer, advocate and practitioner"!