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China News WEICHAI BYD SINOTRUK
WEICHAI Set to
Strengthen its
Presence in the
Global Market
As China’s first engine maker ever
listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange BYD Launches Electric Trucks
on March 11, 2004, WEICHAI
(stock code: 238H) has been gaining and Van in Europe
a constantly rising status in the
international market.
Fully committed to developing BYD has released in Spain three of BYD T6 light truck,the Q1M
and marketing its power engines, zero-emission commercial vehicle Yard Tractor specially designed for
WEICHAI has also been making production lines specially designed airport, port and distribution center
great efforts in diversifying its business, for fleet customers in Europe. BYD and electric van T3. They are the
restructuring its industrial structure, and E-trucks and e-van are already sold beginning of the full range of 100
pushing forward its industrial upgrading. in China, but not yet available to percent electric light and heavy-duty
It is now set to further strengthen its European customers. The first trucks commercail vehicles to be rolled out
presence in the global market. BYD is bring to Europe consisted in coming years.
SINOTRUK's Self-driving Electric Trucks Recently, a batch of self-driving
electric trucks made by SINOTRUK
Start Mass Operation in Tianjin Port started their official operation at
Tianjin Port, ushering a brand new
era for the commercialization of
driverless heavy-duty trucks.
On February 9, 2018, SINOTRUK
signed an agreement with Tianjin Port
for the development and pilot operation
of intelligent self-driving trucks at the
port. On April 12, the first driverless
electric truck went into operation at
the port. So far, the vehicle has been
working smoothly for over 11 months.
In January this year, SINOTRUK
successfully secured an order of four
units intelligent electric trucks from
Tianjin Port, fully demonstrating its
formidable competitiveness in this
emerging field.
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