Dongfeng Yangtse (扬子江汽车集团有限公司), formerly Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (东风扬子江汽车(武汉)有限责任公司), is a bus manufacturing company based in
Wuhan
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,
Hubei
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,
China
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, founded in 2004.
History
Its roots trace back to 1929 when the Wuhan Bus Management office and repair shop was first set up. By 1964, the company became the ''Wuhan Public Bus Factory'', manufacturing buses. In 1999, an agreement as signed with the
Mercedes-Benz
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division in
Thailand
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to develop new models of buses.
In 2004, the company was reorganized and named the ''Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.'', commonly known as ''Dongfeng Yangtse Bus''.
Buses are built under the ''Yangtse'' and ''Yangzijiang'' brands.
Dongfeng Yangtse era
In 2016-05-23, Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. announced renaming the company to Dongfeng Yangtse (扬子江汽车集团有限公司).
In September 2016, the experimental production line of China Yangzijiang Automobile Group rolled off the production line for the first time. A normal temperature and normal pressure hydrogen energy storage bus, Taige, has almost reached commercial operation capacity. Its technological breakthrough lies in the use of a chemical absorbent to convert liquid hydrogen It absorbs and mixes it, and then uses a catalyst to reduce and release it, which solves the problem of storage and transportation of hydrogen energy that is dangerous or costly. The traditional hydrogen dilemma is that it must be stored at low temperature or high pressure. Low temperature requires a lot of electricity. It is completely uneconomical. Although it is cheap, it is also a high-priced product, and it has major safety hazards when it is popularized in the market for civilian use. The breakthrough technology lies in Professor Cheng Hansong, an expert of the Thousand Talents Program, who is the world's leading and original disruptive "normal temperature and normal pressure hydrogen storage technology", which can make use of the existing infrastructure such as gas stations and oil transportation systems, greatly reducing the
hydrogen economy
The hydrogen economy is using hydrogen to decarbonize economic sectors which are hard to electrify, essentially, the "hard-to-abate" sectors such as cement, steel, long-haul transport etc. In order to phase out fossil fuels and limit climate ch ...
problems.
In 2020-05-13, Wuhan city East West Lake district people's court accepted Dongfeng Yangtse bankruptcy filed by Changzhou Changjiang Glass Co., Ltd. When the company's debt report period ended in 2020-09-04, 274 creditors had applied total debt claim of 2,367,393,840.72
RMB
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Models
*WG6100NHA
*WG6100NH0E
*WG6101NQE
*WG6110CHM4
*WG6110NQC
*WG6110NQE
*WG6111NQC
*WG6111NQE
*WG6120BEVHM
*WG6120CHA
*WG6120NHAE
*WG6120NHM4
*WG6120PHEVAA
*WG6121NQOE
*WG6810NQP
*WG6850NHK
*WG6940NQD
Trolley Buses
WG6120BHEVM
WG6124BHEVM
WG6120DHA
WG-D68U
References
External links
Dongfeng Yangtse Bus website
{{Automotive industry in the People's Republic of China
Bus manufacturers of China
Chinese companies established in 2004
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2004
Manufacturing companies based in Wuhan
Chinese brands