The big Chinese bus: 26-meter Yutong electric bus produced for Mexico

There is something long associated with China — the Great Wall. The new Yutong bus is a little shorter, but it can also accommodate a lot of people.

As the manufacturer notes on YouTube, the world’s first 26-meter battery electric bus rolled off the assembly line at the end of January. It features «the latest battery and motor technology» as well as new driver assistance systems. Designed to meet Mexico’s needs for high-capacity, low-energy buses, it will be distributed to other Latin American countries in the future.

According to E-Bus RadarMexico has the fourth largest fleet of electric buses in Latin America, the vast majority of which are manufactured by Yutong. The cooperation underscores China’s expansion into both developed and emerging economies — buses Yutong are sold from the Baltic States and Norway to Singapore and Chile.

The Chinese market is already filled with electric buses (largely due to government subsidies), so the company, like others Chinese manufacturers of electric carsThe situation in China and the buyer countries is different. The situation in China and the buyer countries is the opposite US trendswhere they prefer to develop infrastructure for individual cars.

Source: The Byte