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Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles empowers Tangjun Ouling in multiple dimensions, accelerating the new energy transformation. The first new energy commercial vehicle rolled off the line at the Tangjun base, and Geely Xingjie pure electric buses were delivered in batches, showcasing the "Zibo speed" of new energy transformation achievements and driving the development of a billion-level automotive industry cluster. On August 18, Tangjun Ouling officially announced that it would stop producing traditional fuel commercial vehicles in December 2023. On the same day, the first new energy product Xin Fengrui V5E rolled off the line at Geely Commercial Vehicle's Zibo base and batch deliveries of Geely Xingjie pure electric city buses C10E began, demonstrating the phased achievements of Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle's comprehensive empowerment of Tangjun Ouling's new energy transformation.
Shandong Province is not only a major province for commercial vehicle manufacturing and sales nationwide but also a major logistics hub, with new momentum represented by new energy vehicles steadily breaking through. Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles is deeply rooted in Shandong, comprehensively empowering Tangjun Ouling's new energy transformation, promoting the conversion of old and new growth drivers, and driving the development of Shandong's new energy vehicle industry chain, helping improve an intelligent green logistics system. Within Shandong Province, Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles is actively expanding the new energy commercial vehicle market, facilitating the popularization of new energy commercial vehicles. In the first half of this year, Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle's new energy light commercial vehicles and new energy heavy trucks achieved a market share of 10.7%, leading Shandong's logistics industry transformation and upgrading with green transport capacity services.
A short film takes us through how Geely Commercial Vehicle empowers Tangjun Ouling from multiple dimensions, helping comprehensively refresh Tangjun Ouling's products and brand and achieving rapid, diversified and new energy-oriented development of the Zichuan automotive industry.
In his speech, Guo Yihua, member of the Zichuan District Party Committee and Deputy District Mayor, stated that new energy vehicles are gradually becoming the main transformation direction of the global automotive industry. In January 2020, Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles officially settled in Zichuan. Last August, Geely's first pickup truck rolled off the line, from signing to production in just 190 days, creating a new "Zichuan speed." The launch of the first new energy vehicle at Geely Commercial Vehicle's Zibo base and the delivery of Geely Xingjie buses is a key step for Geely Commercial Vehicles to fully empower Tangjun's new energy transformation and help Zichuan build a leading new energy vehicle industrial park. This is bound to play an important role in promoting the development of Zibo's automotive industry. It is hoped that Geely Commercial Vehicles will fully leverage its leading advantages in technology research and development, quality management, and brand marketing to lead and drive Zichuan's new energy vehicle industry forward. The Zichuan District Committee and District Government will further strengthen the concepts of valuing, attracting, reassuring, and enriching businesses, cooperate sincerely with Geely Group, continuously optimize the marketing environment, improve various supporting policies, promote the "Zichuan speed," "Zichuan efficiency," and "Zichuan service" brand, and create a county-level new energy vehicle industry cluster to jointly create a brighter future for Zichuan's new energy vehicle industry.
In his speech, Fan Xianjun, CEO of Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group, stated that zero-carbon efficiency has now become a global consensus for development. New energy and intelligent transformation have also opened a window for supply chain adjustment and ecosystem expansion in the commercial vehicle industry. The transformation of commercial vehicles from high-speed growth to high-quality development has entered the era of new commercial vehicles. New commercial vehicles are shifting from production tools to intelligent mobile transport capacity, zero-carbon logistics carriers, and digital living spaces. Scenario-operating, green, and intelligent new-generation commercial vehicles can more humanely meet diversified customization needs. The trend of new energy commercial vehicles replacing traditional fuel vehicles is irreversible, and their value is gradually becoming apparent. From January to July, China's commercial vehicle market declined by 44.7% overall, while new energy commercial vehicles increased by 60.4%, with a penetration rate reaching 7.6%. Development reports indicate that the penetration rate of China's new energy commercial vehicles will break through quickly during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. After eight years of development, Geely Commercial Vehicles has rapidly grown from a new force in the industry to an industry leader. Geely Commercial Vehicles has ranked first in cumulative sales in the industry, and new energy light trucks have been the sales champion for seven consecutive months. The number of manufacturing enterprises related to commercial vehicles ranks first in the country, with a market share 2.5 times that of its second-place competitor. Shandong Province is a major province in commercial vehicle and logistics industries and is also an important hub for the Belt and Road Initiative, giving it unique geographical advantages for modern logistics development and enormous potential for new energy transformation. Tangjun Ouling is a commercial vehicle company rooted in Zibo, Shandong Province, with a glorious development history spanning 66 years. With the evolution of the times, Tangjun Ouling has always been courageous in breaking through and innovating. Since Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group officially acquired Tangjun Ouling in January 2021, it has comprehensively empowered Tangjun Ouling's high-quality transformation and upgrading in areas such as R&D system construction, product quality improvement, manufacturing management, supply chain optimization, and technological transformation, laying a solid foundation for starting a new journey of new energy transformation. Now, with the launch of the first new energy vehicle at Geely Commercial Vehicle's Zibo base, high-quality products represented by Xin Fengrui V5E will gradually improve Tangjun Ouling's new energy model lineup. Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles will rely on the "two plant areas + three factories" intelligent manufacturing layout built in Zibo to form a 1225 industrial structure, leverage the three major platforms built, jointly empower market new energy solutions, accelerate local promotion of new energy commercial vehicles, and support green transportation development.
The newly launched new energy light truck, Xin Fengrui V5E, features Yuan Cheng's family design in its appearance, with a compact and agile form. Its rounded front face, combined with trendy headlights, perfectly blends cuteness with modernity, while the self-illuminating Yuan Cheng logo gives the vehicle high recognition. Inside, the vehicle adopts passenger car-style designs such as a four-spoke multifunction steering wheel, a digital instrument cluster, and a rotary gear shifter. The centrally symmetrical center console design puts all function buttons within easy reach, and the standard ECO mode further extends the vehicle's range, truly demonstrating what it means to offer a driving experience comparable to passenger cars. In van configuration, the Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E offers a cargo volume of up to 13 cubic meters, fully adapting to urban distribution scenarios such as moving and freight transport. As for the flatbed version, the overall vehicle height is reduced to below 2200 mm, enabling easy entry and exit from underground garages and adapting to a wider variety of application scenarios.
Wang Yanbin, Vice President of Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group, explains the Yuan Cheng V5E product. Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles seizes the opportunity of green and low-carbon development, continuously accelerating the new energy transformation of products. In the layout of light commercial products, customized segmented products are developed for express logistics, community group purchase distribution, same-city distribution on freight platforms, and special application scenarios. It has laid out two major product lines: VAN vehicles and trucks. VAN vehicles cover 5-8 cubic meter products, while trucks cover 3.5T-12T products, creating three major product brands: Xingzhi, Fengrui, and Xingxiang. It has formed a technical route for urban commercial vehicles centered on pure electric and extended-range, setting a new height in the commercial vehicle industry from "hardware-defining vehicles" to "software-defining vehicles." The Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E, rolled off at Geely Commercial Vehicle's Zibo base, is positioned as the leader of high-end wealth-creation small trucks and is a brand-new pure electric small truck tailored by Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles to meet diverse user needs. The Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E can be matched with diversified high-quality upper bodies, transforming into five types: box trucks, stake trucks, flatbed trucks, refrigerated trucks, and back-carrying special chassis, broadening usage boundaries. It not only meets typical urban distribution transport conditions such as cold chain and supermarket distribution but also meets municipal sanitation modification needs, and can handle transport scenarios requiring entry into underground garages and alleys, such as building materials and construction waste. It will create new opportunities for the "urban artery economy." The Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E has five major advantages: "new look, new driving fun, new space, new load capacity, and new power," perfectly interpreting the new value of pure electric small trucks, allowing users to easily and intelligently enjoy the path to wealth creation. In terms of new appearance, the Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E adopts a "Yuan Cheng family design," with a trendy, cool, and dynamic body shape that perfectly matches users' individual aesthetics. In terms of new driving pleasure, it fully interprets the "driving experience comparable to passenger vehicles," showcasing high-end taste. In terms of new space, the cargo volume of the Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E box truck can reach 13 cubic meters, comparable to light truck freight capacity, with an internal cargo width of 1850mm, allowing large furniture such as mattresses to be transported with ease. The flatbed truck version of the Xinfengrui V5E has an overall height below 2200mm, ensuring safe entry and exit from underground garages, achieving "door-to-door" delivery with comprehensive consideration. In terms of new load capacity, thanks to 510L beam steel, light truck-class 160 beams, and a reinforced 1.5-ton front axle plus 3-ton rear axle, heavy loads are also safe and reliable. In terms of new power, the Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E is equipped with a high-quality electric motor, with a maximum torque of 255 N·m, providing excellent acceleration performance and strong climbing capability. Additionally, this product is the first high-end small truck in China to apply a side air deflector, equipped with a streamlined integrated air deflector that extends to the sides of the body, significantly reducing wind resistance during driving and effectively enhancing overall range. The launch of the first new energy commercial vehicle—Yuan Cheng Xin Fengrui V5E—at Geely Commercial Vehicle's Zibo base is of great significance, signaling that Geely Commercial Vehicle's 2.0 product matrix is more complete and its new energy development process is accelerating. In the future, Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles will use Xin Fengrui V5E as a new
At the event, Zhao Dongyue, Deputy General Manager of the Bus Division of Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group, stated in his speech that the delivery of these 200 Intercity Star buses not only marks that Zibo is both the origin and destination of production, but also represents recognition of the quality of Geely Intercity Star buses and a high level of consensus between both parties in practicing the national dual-carbon goals. In June 2021, Geely Intercity Star officially released its manufacturing standards, establishing a full-process, full-chain, and all-around production system to ensure products are delivered to the market with world-class quality. Currently, its products have covered more than 50 medium and large cities including Beijing, Wuhan, Hangzhou, and Xi'an for delivery and operation, and trial runs of sample vehicles have been completed overseas in Thailand and New Zealand, with bulk orders secured in the UAE region. This delivery will add a brilliant chapter to the development history of Geely Intercity Star and holds significant importance for the strategy of Intercity Star to establish a foothold in Shandong, radiate nationwide, and ultimately move toward globalization. Quality builds brands, and service ensures trust. With high-quality, professional, and all-around attentive service, Geely Intercity Star will continue to serve Zibo public transportation, support customers with worry-free long-term operations, and contribute to the travel of local citizens in Zibo.
