On December 18, Eugenia Katsigris, senior advisor of Global Environment Facility (GEF) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Manuel Soriano, technical chief, Dr. Zhang Weidong from the representative office in China, as well as the related people from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China responsible for GEF project, visited Yutong and inspected the application progress situation of “China Fuel Cell Vehicle Joint Demonstration Project”.

The expert delegation visited the experiment center, took Yutong’s 2^nd-generation fuel cell bus and listened to the report on Yutong’s development situation of fuel cell buses. The experts found that the power system of the Yutong EV consisting of fuel cell and batteries represents the international development trend of fuel cell buses. In the afternoon, the experts also visited Yutong’s hydrogen refilling station that is under construction. Through the on-site inspection, the UN experts appraised Yutong’s development on fuel cell buses as well as the construction progress of the hydrogen refilling station.

It is learned Yutong decided the technical route from hybrid buses to electric buses to fuel cell buses early in 2009. Up to now, Yutong has completed the development of two generations of fuel cell buses and the overall performances of whole vehicles have reached the leading level in China. In 2014, Yutong jointed the Technology Innovation Alliance of China Fuel Cell Automobile Industry, was involved in the application of “Industrialization of Fuel Cell Power System” project and successfully passed the first factory qualification inspection of fuel cell buses in China’s bus industry.