GRAND BAAV AWARD BRT BUS:
ZHENGZHOU YUTONG BUS CO. MODEL ZK6180MGQA9
This bus is a diesel-electric hybrid bus, a type of vehicle Yutong started already developing in a very early stage, at a moment when the Chinese bus industry in general was hardly considering this type of driveline. By using partly local technology and partly technology acquired from foreign partners, Yutong more or less combined the best of two worlds into a vehicle which is reaching a very high technical level with regard to the driveline. One of the technologies used in this vehicle are supercapacitors, as part of the brake energy regeneration system. It is a technology which saves energy during the environmentally critical phase of acceleration, reducing emissions and the outside noise level.
Yutong is able to implement this technology in all kinds of buses, but presented it to the BAAV Awards jury as part of an articulated bus, going for the Grand BAAV Award BRT Bus. Being of a lightweight construction, this adds to the environmental friendliness of the vehicle, and therefore is considered by the jury to be a bus that deserves this award. But nevertheless she has some remarks to make: though the outside appearance of the vehicle is without any doubt, the interior configuration could be more logical, particularly in the articulated part of this bus. An efficient BRT vehicle offers the possibility of fast flows of passengers leaving and entering the bus, but the lay-out of the rear part can disturb this flow,
BAAV ENVIRONMENT AWARD BUS – SHARED:
ZHONGTONG BUS HOLDING MODEL LCK6101GP HEV
Aninteresting development convinced the Jury that this BAAV award should be shared by two entrants. This development is the use of locally developed driveline technology, for vehicles being partly or entirely driven electrically. One of these vehicles is the Zhongtong LCK6101GP HEV, a hybrid diesel-electric bus which uses a locally manufactured driveline. Though there were more diesel-electric HEV buses entered for this competition, this one deserves the prize, according to the jury, because it makes use of this local solution, and thus stimulates local research and development. She considers this development as a milestone for the Chinese bus industry, which should be rewarded. The parallel hybrid system used in this bus was jointly developed by Zhongtong Bus and the automotive faculty of QuinghuaUniversity.
BAAV ENVIRONMENT AWARD BUS – SHARED:
ZHENGZHOU YUTONG BUS CO. MODEL ZK6125EGAA
The prize should jointly be received by Yutong, for its ZK6125EGA bus, according to the jury. She deserves this prize because of the fact that it is the first fuel cell powered bus in Chinausing fuel cells which were completely locally developed and produced by local researchers and industries. Could the Zhongtong HEV bus be considered as an important step in the short term to develop a low-emission public transport system in the Chinese urban area, this Yutong bus with its locally-made fuel cells offers the same possibilities for the long term. And opens the view of a Chinese bus industry which is completely self-supporting with regard to the development of “green” driveline techniques.
BAAV INNOVATION AWARD BUS:
HUNAN CSR TIMES ELECTRIC VEHICLE CO. MODEL TEG6119SHEV
Hunan CSR is a relatively young as a bus manufacturer, having gained its laurels with the production of railbound equipment for public transport. Seeing the possibilities of alternative drivelines in the bus segment, the company decided a couple of years ago to enter this field. Last year, she exhibited an electric bus at the Busworld exhibition.
Hunan CSR times Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. (CTEV) Is jointly owned by CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute (CSR Times), TsinghuaUniversity and theSany Group Co., Ltd, committing itself to the manufacturing of complete vehicles, electrical system and key components.
Key target is the development of national Chinese EV industry by modularizing the EV drive systems as well as their parts, serializing the R&D and the mass production. With a strategy of technology and market diversification, CTEV aims at manufacturing electric vehicles for specific purposes.
To what successful developments this strategy could lead, was shown by the company during the Asian Coach Week, which she entered with three vehicles, all based on the same basic electrical components: a parallel hybrid drive bus, a fully electric bus, and a serial hybrid drive bus – the first vehicle of this kind ever developed in China with local components. And built with components which are partly the same as used in the electric bus and the diesel electric hybrid. These two facts were for the jury enough reason to propose Hunan CSR Times Electric Vehicle Co for this innovation award.