Eaton Corporation has formally introduced its first commercially available hybrid power system in China with Beiqi Foton Bus Company, deploying the hybrid system in 30 city buses for Guangzhou Yiqi Bus.
Beiqi Foton and Eaton delivered the 30 hybrid diesel-electric transit buses to Guangzhou Yiqi Bus during a recent ceremony hosted by the United States Department of Commerce as part of its Clean Energy Trade Mission to China and India. The 30 buses will be deployed to carry passengers in the city, with an expected fuel savings of up to 27 percent, along with similar reductions in particulate and nitrogen oxide emissions.
Guangzhou Yiqi operates approximately half of the transit buses in Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people in China's Guangdong province. Beiqi Foton, one of China's leading commercial vehicle makers, first brought Eaton's hybrid power system to China in two prototype buses developed and deployed for testing in 2006.