Dongfeng Yangtse

Dongfeng Yangtse
扬子江汽车集团有限公司
IndustryAutomotive
Founded2004
2016-05-23 (Dongfeng Yangtse)
Defunct2020
Fatebankrupt
Headquarters
Wuhan, Hubei
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ProductsBuses
Websitehttp://www.dfyzj.com/

Yangtse Motor Group Co., Ltd (扬子江汽车集团有限公司), formerly Dongfeng Yangtse Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (东风扬子江汽车(武汉)有限责任公司), was a bus manufacturing company based in Wuhan, Hubei, founded in 2004.

History[edit]

Its roots trace back to 1929 when the Wuhan Bus Management office and repair shop was first set up. It started manufacturing vehicles in 1950.[1] By 1964, the company became the Wuhan Public Bus Factory, manufacturing buses. In 1999, an agreement as signed with the Mercedes-Benz division in Thailand to develop new models of buses.[2]

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[edit]

On May 23, 2016, Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. announced its renaming of the company to Yangtse Motor Group (扬子江汽车集团有限公司).[3][4]

In September 2016, the first experimental hydrogen fuel cell bus, Taige, was completed at the factory. Its technological breakthrough lies in the use of a chemical absorbent to convert liquid hydrogen which absorbs and mixes it, and then uses a catalyst to reduce and release it, solving 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 problems.[5]

On May 13, 2020, Wuhan Dongxihu district people's court accepted Yangtse Motor Group's 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.[6][7]

Models[edit]

  • WG6100NHA
  • WG6100NH0E
  • WG6101NQE
  • WG6110CHM4
  • WG6110NQC
  • WG6110NQE
  • WG6111NQC
  • WG6111NQE
  • WG6120BEVHM
  • WG6120CHA
  • WG6120NHAE
  • WG6120NHM4
  • WG6120PHEVAA
  • WG6121NQOE
  • WG6124BEVH
  • WG6810NQP
  • WG6850NHK

WG6940NQD

Trolley Buses[edit]

WG6120BHEVM

WG6124BHEVM

WG6120DHA

WG-D68U

References[edit]

  1. ^ 余, 世平. "东风扬子江汽车(武汉)有限责任公司". 武汉交通运输年鉴.
  2. ^ "扬子江客车". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
  3. ^ "正式更名为扬子江汽车集团 北京道路运输展推出第二代在线充公交". 2016-05-23. Archived from the original on 2022-10-29.
  4. ^ "扬子江 :回归车本位,聚焦新能源/YANGTSE:Focus on New Energy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-29.
  5. ^ "全球首台常温常压氢能客车在武汉诞生 - 氢能源汽车 - IT之家". 2018-03-12. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  6. ^ "中信建发重组扬子江汽车"踩雷" 申报债权超预期10亿余元". Archived from the original on 2022-10-28.
  7. ^ "扬子江汽车破产清算案获受理 重组复生计划被强按"暂停键"". Archived from the original on 2020-10-24.

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