here in Santiago, Chile we have like 2500 EV buses, many BYD include the double deck, but also Yutong among other chinese brands, they are waaay better than the old ICE buses, silent and smooth travel, the loud on the streets was lowered a lot, i think that all the new gen public transit system will purchase EVs
Chile seems to be ahead of the curve and good on them. They know what's best. Old buses stink and make so much noise EV buses are so much better, and get up hills easier too without all the drama.
trump is trying to stop the EV revolution along with his cronies.. :) too late...the funny thing is that idiot elon sided with him...yeah..he may not have to pay taxes if trump comes in, but he will lose market share if trump pushes for ICE cars... elon will also lose tons of money as his base were the EV loving liberals... i have a feeling trump will open up the market to chinese EVs (contrary to what most people think) and once chinese EVs enter the US it is game over for legacy makers...
We have them in Burgas Bulgaria 🇧🇬 country in eastern europe. Absolutely amazing buses no noise air condition very spacious inside a real pleasure using it every time. Great job.
One of the most enjoyable and exciting videos, rich in scientific and technical information, with wonderful, smooth and exciting performance and direction.
Love this video! China is very fast surpassing all other countries with EV technology! In Kunming the local bus company (Kunming Bus) replaced the majority of their diesel powered busses vehicles with EV models from Yutong. The rest of the fleet was replaced with CNG or CNG-hybrid ones. At the same time heavy restrictions were imposed on all other traffic leading to a significant decrease of vehicles in the city centre and thus a cleaner environment (as if that was needed in Kunming which was already one of the cleanest cities in the world!). Also, as can be seen in this video if you look closely, all EV's have a different license plate from combustion engine types. Combustion engine vehicles have a blue license plate with a Chinese character indicating the issuing province, then a letter that identifies the issuing city (A for the province's capital) and then 5 alpha numericals to identify the vehicle. EV's have a green license plate with 6 alpha numericals after the city indicator so you can always see what type of vehicle is going by. Last month in Kunming the number of green license plates far surpassed the blue ones!
I live in Kunming myself and was having a look at the buses the other week. When I first came it seemed there were not as many green plates as in Shanghai but now it already seems there are many more on the road. It's a wonderful city.
@@InsideChinaAuto A lot of EV busses in Kunming predate the move to green plates for EV's (they were taken into service between 2016 and 2018), a lot of them still have their standard yellow plates but you'll notice the difference in travel comfort.
Good insider visit. Nowadays people need to be widely informed about everything concerning EV technology safety, and EV producers need to be as transparent as needed.
I tired says ignorance society of Europe or USA made in china or underestimate Chinese or China they no have glu or idea about new china is no like before 30-40 years before the china change a lot for green world and they hard work people i love china and Chinese open mind and they have best EV cars or bus in the world
China truly is a mystery to most people outside of China but they all talk like they know it so well. The way to tell if somebody actually knows something about China is they'll tell you nobody ever really knows China. Even the new vice-presidential nominee who taught in China for a while will tell you just because he taught there doesn't mean he knows it. I've been here a long time and I know a lot but there's still plenty I'll never know and some I'll never understand, and that's fine. The best advice I can give is for them to visit and see what it's really all about. If they are too afraid to do that, or too ignorant, they can't comment.
The West has fed the rest of the world with propaganda. At the end it's all about domination. They can never suppress China. I just think China needs to tell its story more
Wow, it's just beyond words. Such a great documentary, an eye opening for an endearing freedom. My greatest hope to see more peace and respect of each other. God's blessings upon us.
Fascinating journey. I watched footage of the Toyota Mirai build line a few years ago. Absolute silence, effectively. What a contrast to the likes of Longbridge, for instance 80 years ago.
What a great company! 👏👏👏 Thank you very much for the tour, and I am really impressed 😍😍😍 Here in Spain we have some BYD electric buses, and I am sure that the buses that you have showed would be awesome in our streets 😁😁😁
@ OMG, 😆 this comment was for the previous video I had watched and I must have typed too late after your video had started. Thanks for the funny remark though 🤣. Big fan here.
We have a lot of Yutong diesel buses and a Yutong plant in Venezuela the bus at 2:48 is one of ours actually, but it's manufactured in China; they were actually being delivered a couple of weeks ago
As was I. Didn't expect his companies went to those lengths. I have a relative who works at a UK bus company and I'm pretty sure they don't go to those levels.
@@InsideChinaAuto well if they are the largest bus maker, they have the money to go all out smaller companies tend to eke by from what I can tell by recent bankruptcies.
Absolutely great video...much appreciated..few comments: - the cold testing: i believe China has some serious cold places (as well as hot places) where they can test those buses. are their tests performed only in house or do they test them out in real outdoor temperatures? - are the batteries manufactured by them or outsourced? - i used to think that BYD was the biggest E-bus manufaturer...i guess i was wrong.. - beautiful bus @ 17:34 great tech indeed...never thought a video about buses would be this interesting! well done... it is a profitable company by the way...
Glad you enjoyed the video. I do believe they test in real world conditions too in the hot and cold places in China. I think they do make their own batteries.
Coincidentally. I saw a post on a Facebook bus page, where a BYD EV bus, in Aberdeen of all places was allegedly having to delay it's journey to allow the battery to cool down. Facebook groups doing their thing, obviously! With the usual snidey remarks about lack of testing and build quality etc! 🙄 Hey ho!
@@InsideChinaAuto I brush off stuff like that. I'm a BMC/BL/Rover fan. It's familiar territory. There's also a great deal of deja vu too. How they laughed at the Japanese imports in the sixties. How they laughed at the Koreans in the Seventies! Now look where they all are now I imagine the jobs at the factories are quite sought after too?
@PaddyWV I'd certainly imagine so, yes. Couldn't believe how good the conditions were in there. I've been to many auto factories and they're usually quite hot, especially in China's summers, but the climate was perfect. Also a big BL/Rover fan, as bad as they were. Still have my original Rover Mini, my first car, from 1993. Nature is trying to claim it back since I'm not there to drive/look after it but I'll make sure it goes nowhere.
Wrightbus build here in Northern Ireland delivered a dozend or so to Derry last year and the same happened in the first couple of months. I think it was the motor's so
@@InsideChinaAuto You're right, there is also "Société de Transport Public" written there.😊Some other journalists shoot army green solo buses with four colors flag on it's front - these went to Venezuela for a change.
I asked Yutong and they recommended you go here. en.yutong.com/contact/ Guess because it depends on the bus and where you're buying it for a lot of stuff.
Indeed, great things coming out of China! The bus is pretty impressive with features that spell comfort , but people might not be confident in a self driven bus because of safety! What if another vehicle runs into it on a busy highway close to a bridge? My thought!
Wow really great video , Yutong busses are really impressive,well done to this Chinese manufacturer. I wonder what prices though for standard electric bus & small electric busses are. Thank you.
Yutong say your best bet is to look on their site, since they have a lot of buses and obviously it'll depend on the bus and the market you're buying in. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very interesting and comprehensive report, thx. I'd like to see a few of these trialed with National Express. Just spent 3.5hrs on a N/Ex standard coach which these days is a Portuguese Caetano bodied tri-axle Scania. My god! What an uncomfortable coach. Lot of road noise. Lot's of engine/transmission noise. Lot's of rattles from poorly engineered coachwork. Deeply uncomfortable seats. It's the coachwork. Don't blame Scania. I guess N/Ex buy them as they are cheap as chips. Maybe it's time to jump ship and go with Yutong?
There's a strange force field around your neck mate, it seems like space and time bend around it slightly.. either that or someone is trying to edit out their neckline a little ;)
Haha. I noticed that when I was editing it and wondered what the hell it was. Somebody suggested it might have been a filter on the camera. I've never used it in selfie video mode before so it's quite possible there's some auto-software in there. If it's trying to improve me it hasn't done a very good job. I've got a Pocket 3 now for such videos so shouldn't be an issue again.
Great video as usual. Just a sidenote, it might be worth putting a flashing images warning on this video as there's lots of focusing on LED lights that strobe on video. Of course this can be dangerous for some people.
@@InsideChinaAuto 0:18 and 1:40 are two moments, though there may be more (I started watching the video for a few mins then listened to the rest). Related to the actual topic of the video, it's really fascinating to see the future of public transport in terms of EV buses and autonomy, and of course China is on the cutting edge!
What happened to your camera at around 3:15 where you are standing in front of a bus.When you move the camera, or you move yourself. The bus is distorted.
I'm guessing you mean the distortion. Turns out there's a bunch of it in the video whenever my face is in the frame. I think there was some kind of filter on that I wasn't aware of when filming. I noticed it after and wondered what the hell it was. I rarely film in selfie mode so didn't know it did that.
Not sure Youngman even exist anymore. I remember them, as awful a name choice that is, but can't say I've seen one recently. BYD, Yutong, Skywell, King Long, Golden Dragon, these are the names I tend to see most often.
Thanks, interesting. I wonder how much they are priced at relative to ICE buses. Also, might passengers get WiFi connectivity (and serve coffee?)! Hope these buses will solve the public transport issues of cities in Asia and elsewhere.
Interesting question on the prices, I'm not sure. There will almost certainly be WiFi available, it's generally offered these days. Coffee might be a bit of a stretch.
perhaps next time you can record it in 360 as one reviewer did for his visit to a Nio factory. never viewed a 360 video on youtube but it worked and looked great and the video was great.. oh, Nio factory is something else as well...so well designed and high tech... people dont realize where china has reached...xiaomi has opened up a mobile manufaturing facility which can produce 10 million phones a year and it runs fully on robotics! i think not a signle human works there! I'm not a Nio fan but i reckon they produce top quality cars which can possibly outright beat any car in the world in terms of quality...after what i saw in that video i realized why their cars are priced at such level (higher end of pricing)! you may want to make a video of a Nio plant...or another top manufacturer in China...
I was at the Nio factory with Elliott when he recorded the 360 video. My video will come out fairly soon but have a bunch of car videos to edit and publish first, including a Nio.
The government of El Salvador has ordered about 1500 Yutong buses to replace the capital's old buses, they should arrive at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2025
I had seen , the way Chinese dump trucks have their battery replaced by a robot, isn't there a way they can do the same with the buses as well. that would be really cool
I'm absolutely certain it's possible. Maybe risky though due to the low ride height and long wheelbase of buses as they could get damaged easily in some places.
Hehehe… Face filter much? My guess is you’re not vane, but maybe the phone automatically activated a slimming filter, there’s a lot of distortion around your face on some takes. Anyway, love your videos, great work!
Haha, you know, I noticed that watching it back and I was wondering what the hell it was. I rarely ever use the front facing camera so there's likely a setting on there I don't know about. I was wondering why the background was bending around my face. Don't think it did much good whatever it was.
That wasn't intentional. I only spotted that in the edit. I never use that phone for selfie stuff so I think there was something selected I didn't know about.
They have. I'm not 100% certain which part they make, the vehicle or the RV part but they had one on site. There might even be a clip of it in the b-roll.
It seems that there are still too many people who don’t understand Made in China. made in China. Today, all products can be made in China. From daily necessities: toothbrushes, shoes, clothes, kitchen utensils, any supplies, electronic products: mobile phones, computers, drones, air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, LED displays, 5G transmission, various cars: traditional fuels including engines 100% manufacturing of independent, gasoline + battery hybrid, pure battery cars, buses, large heavy truck lifts, bulldozers, excavators, cargo ships and tankers. Space stations, aviation rockets, supersonic missiles, warships, various military weapons, drones, aero engines, fighter engines, and the recent breakthrough 28nm lithography machine. Huawei has photolithography machines for manufacturing 7nm chips. The medium-sized chips required for electronic products come from China, and its lithography machine production accounts for 60% of the world's production. The above products can be 100% independently designed and manufactured in China. China has countless software engineers and hardware engineers
Indeed. China used to make the world's tat and cheap crap but those days are long gone. They still make much of that, but now they make high-tech stuff as well and everything in between.
An IED - Incendiary Explosive Device - sabotage-test needs to be added. A tiny remote-controllable magnetic/adhesive IED device could/can easily cause any lithium ion battery pack to burst into flames - a very small IED only needs to contain a few grams of plastic explosive + incendiary material/fluid to blow a 2-3 inch hole in the battery pack with the incendiary material/fluid making a blaze inevitable. (Possibly slightly less inevitable with LFP batt-packs) A nail or spike test is good - but everyone still seems to be in denial about the threat of targeted + coordinated anti-EV, blaze-igniting IED sabotage attacks. Paul G
@@InsideChinaAuto Here's a comment of the kind that I (and I alone !) occasionally post in order to try to break the deafening silence on the almost totally taboo subject of targeted co-ordinated IED EV attacks - but first a few e-bus fire vids - key truth-giveaway - almost all EV fires illogically occur in vehicles that are parked, unoccupied, inactive and therefore under zero load/payload stress with minimal risk of thermal runaway/battery overheating. Saboteurs clearly don''t want or need to cause fatalities - non-stop global EV blaze headlines and reports are enough to help seriously and constantly undermine consumer and investor confidence in all things EV-related - just one of many weapons in the anti-EV hit-squads' armoury. Here're just a few typical, ultra-suspicious, counter-logical but ostensibly "random" e-Bus fire videos. Magnetic/adhesive IED placed under bus against battery compartment = my logical verdict until convincingly proven otherwise: 1)th-cam.com/video/T71cVhxG_v4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zl9Id74CrVaY452X 2)th-cam.com/video/O8p4JUwb680/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g5MZ0d2ArAv7fpyt And here's a recent comment to Carscoops - re yet another counter-logical fire in an EV (Mercedes) that is parked, inactive, unoccupied - ergo under zero load/payload etc stress: "It's very odd and suspicious that these EV fires(or remote-controlled/timed IED sabotage attacks?) almost always only happen when the vehicle is parked motionless and unoccupied somewhere eg. a car-park, on a cargo ship, at a charge-point or in someone's garage when they're in bed. If these were genuinely random, spontaneous fires they'd also be happening anywhere, anytime and when the vehicles(including high-load electric school buses and trucks/semis) are occupied and being driven. Indeed lithium ion(not LFP) fires would be most likely to happen when an EV is being driven very fast for a long time on very hot days - especially after a superfast full re-charge. On a positive note - let's all hope that these ostensibly random, spontaneous fires will persuade and pressure CATL to accelerate the roll-out of BOTH their ultra-long-range, superfast-charge Shenxing Plus LFP/Lithium Iron Phoshate battery packs (which are far less prone to thermal runaway/overheating) AND their next-gen sodium ion cells which can happily tolerate extremely hot/cold operating temperatures(-40C to +60C) and are thus radically less susceptible to thermal runaway and "spontaneous" combustion. But that said - obviously tiny remote-controlled magnetic/adhesive incendiary devices can bring down planes, helicopters etc and cause almost any variety of gasoline or battery-powered vehicle to burst into flames. Hmm - I wonder if 'spontaneous' eVTOL/e-plane 'mystery' fires will soon be making headlines and fuelling even more EV hatred, truth-blind rage, ridicule and rabid hostility... Paul G (To Carscoops www.carscoops.com/2024/08/mercedes-ev-burst-into-flames-in-underground-parking-21-people-injured-due-to-smoke/ )
Have you ever seen a combustion vehicle that suffered an ied attack? I’ve seen plenty. Mostly they’re totally destroyed. No different between a ruptured fuel tank & a battery. Silly comment
@@hughmarcus1 IED's are designed and sized for purpose to meet varying objectives and priorities. Ergo - your comment is totally irrelevant. Large IED's overtly designed to destroy an ICE vehicle and its occupants have no relevance to the subject under discussion - namely tiny IED's designed/sized to covertly and untraceably blow a small hole in a battery pack simultaneously using a tiny amount of incendiary material/fluid to ensure that a fire/blaze is inevitable. I'm referring for example to remote-control IEDs the size of a smartphone battery - indeed even designed to look exactly like a cell phone battery in the event of police or other security checks. So relatively big war/assassination ICE IED's versus EV blaze IED's = Apples & Pears. Paul G
in china the lifespan of their bus is only 1 year, after that it is back to the recycling plant. usually after 1 year of abuse on the road, they can clock 300 to 400 thousand kms
In the news three months ago, Yutong pure electric buses had actually operated for 900,000 kilometers on a bus line in Guangdong, China. It is currently the one with the most accumulated mileage in operation.
@@oyakefire That's impressive. Wonder if it's in Shenzhen. The entire bus and taxi fleets there are electric. About 80,000 vehicles or something like that.
I did not get the logic behind this water test. You are wearing boot covers so your boots do not get wet and at the end bus is at an inclination so water is getting out. What's unique about it? Remind me, what have i missed?
It is important that the bus does not stop in the middle of a water puddle on the street. Therefore, it must be designed with this in mind, and the completed units must be tested to ensure, for example, that the protection of electrical wiring is properly constructed.
The guy below explained it pretty well, but basically you go into the pool, drive to one end, back again, then repeat 3-5 times. The purpose is to prove the bus' electrics, drivetrain and interior electrics, keep on working so you're not just stranded in a flood. The incline was only at the end so we could all get off the bus but we'd been in the water a good ten minutes or so. That wouldn't have been so exciting to watch though.
A refreshingly high IQ and matter-of-fact presenter and video - he sounds like an engineering or science graduate. But is this barely known, rarely hyped, mega-futuristic company really bigger/better than BYD when it comes to electric buses? I've not yet watched to the end of the video but I'm also hoping we'll be told who supplies the battery packs and if CATL's ultra-long range superfast-charge Shenxing Plus LFP cells will be trialled / adopted at some point... PS. I'll assume that almost all bus-stops in China have digital displays showing in minutes how far away the next 2-3 buses are.. Paul G
I believe they make their own packs at Yutong but I'll have to check that out for you. As for all bus stops having digital signs, certainly a lot do but not all, though there's usually an app where you can check exactly where the next buses are and how long they'll take.
In my opinion, it needs clear governance from the top. I've never had the fortune of visiting India but my understanding is that it's still quite a bit more chaotic than China. Say what you will about the government model in China, it helps give a very clear direction for the future and businesses thrive on knowing where the country is going and what they'll get to help it.
China has been good at engineering: The Great Wall and Dams. I think its language is too difficult to memorize for modern times. There are diverse regional languages, and Chinese people communicate by written language. Made in China with common interest to make it a great nation without labor unions. Their skills might be useful in building space stations and connecting Eurasia.
That was unintentional. I only spotted it in the edit when I realised the background looked funny. I still don't know what the filter was as I rarely use that phone in selfie mode.
There you go, thanks for that. They likely told me that at the time but when you're trying to make a video, shuffling along with a bunch of other talking journalists and trying to listen at the same time it's not easy.
Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Where do I mention Russia? I've only ever been to the airport in Russia but would love to see more of the place at some point.
here in Santiago, Chile we have like 2500 EV buses, many BYD include the double deck, but also Yutong among other chinese brands, they are waaay better than the old ICE buses, silent and smooth travel, the loud on the streets was lowered a lot, i think that all the new gen public transit system will purchase EVs
Chile seems to be ahead of the curve and good on them. They know what's best. Old buses stink and make so much noise EV buses are so much better, and get up hills easier too without all the drama.
@@feiipin2k what Happen to Brands from Chile or Brasil?
That's the same here in Rwanda. We only have a few hundred though, not 2500 like you.
trump is trying to stop the EV revolution along with his cronies.. :)
too late...the funny thing is that idiot elon sided with him...yeah..he may not have to pay taxes if trump comes in, but he will lose market share if trump pushes for ICE cars...
elon will also lose tons of money as his base were the EV loving liberals...
i have a feeling trump will open up the market to chinese EVs (contrary to what most people think) and once chinese EVs enter the US it is game over for legacy makers...
@@robrobchen2343 Some of those companies partnered with the Chinese bus companies to provide supports for the EV buses.
Incredible insider look! No wonder Yutong is leading the electric bus revolution.
Glad you liked it.
We traveled in 2015 in Cuba with a Yutong autobus. Comfortable, reliable.
Great that they were good even back then.
We have them in Burgas Bulgaria 🇧🇬 country in eastern europe. Absolutely amazing buses no noise air condition very spacious inside a real pleasure using it every time. Great job.
Looks like they're doing well abroad then. Thanks for the share.
One of the most enjoyable and exciting videos, rich in scientific and technical information, with wonderful, smooth and exciting performance and direction.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Love all these factory tours. Thank you 😊
More to come from Zeekr and NIO.
Love this video! China is very fast surpassing all other countries with EV technology!
In Kunming the local bus company (Kunming Bus) replaced the majority of their diesel powered busses vehicles with EV models from Yutong. The rest of the fleet was replaced with CNG or CNG-hybrid ones. At the same time heavy restrictions were imposed on all other traffic leading to a significant decrease of vehicles in the city centre and thus a cleaner environment (as if that was needed in Kunming which was already one of the cleanest cities in the world!).
Also, as can be seen in this video if you look closely, all EV's have a different license plate from combustion engine types.
Combustion engine vehicles have a blue license plate with a Chinese character indicating the issuing province, then a letter that identifies the issuing city (A for the province's capital) and then 5 alpha numericals to identify the vehicle. EV's have a green license plate with 6 alpha numericals after the city indicator so you can always see what type of vehicle is going by. Last month in Kunming the number of green license plates far surpassed the blue ones!
I live in Kunming myself and was having a look at the buses the other week. When I first came it seemed there were not as many green plates as in Shanghai but now it already seems there are many more on the road. It's a wonderful city.
@@InsideChinaAuto A lot of EV busses in Kunming predate the move to green plates for EV's (they were taken into service between 2016 and 2018), a lot of them still have their standard yellow plates but you'll notice the difference in travel comfort.
Good insider visit.
Nowadays people need to be widely informed about everything concerning EV technology safety, and EV producers need to be as transparent as needed.
Transparency is key.
Thanks for this amazing video.
You're welcome bro.
I tired says ignorance society of Europe or USA made in china or underestimate Chinese or China they no have glu or idea about new china is no like before 30-40 years before the china change a lot for green world and they hard work people i love china and Chinese open mind and they have best EV cars or bus in the world
China truly is a mystery to most people outside of China but they all talk like they know it so well. The way to tell if somebody actually knows something about China is they'll tell you nobody ever really knows China. Even the new vice-presidential nominee who taught in China for a while will tell you just because he taught there doesn't mean he knows it. I've been here a long time and I know a lot but there's still plenty I'll never know and some I'll never understand, and that's fine. The best advice I can give is for them to visit and see what it's really all about. If they are too afraid to do that, or too ignorant, they can't comment.
The West has fed the rest of the world with propaganda. At the end it's all about domination. They can never suppress China. I just think China needs to tell its story more
Wow 😮 Absolutely fascinating peek into a the production and testing of electric buses. Thank you very much for the tour 👍
You're very welcome.
Insights into production is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this!
You're very welcome.
I'll never forget drivers in the 70's shouting out for the passengers to pick their feet up as we hit a good puddle on the road! 😄
Haha, good times, eh?
😂😆
Really interesting - great to see all kinds of transport on your channel!
Still a few types we haven't covered yet but they're coming!
Amazing tour!!!
Long live China!!!!
Many thanks from Sao Paulo, Brazil.❤️🙏
You're welcome mate. Thank you for watching.
Wow, it's just beyond words.
Such a great documentary, an eye opening for an endearing freedom.
My greatest hope to see more peace and respect of each other.
God's blessings upon us.
Sounds like you enjoyed it. I'm glad. Thank you for watching.
Fascinating journey. I watched footage of the Toyota Mirai build line a few years ago. Absolute silence, effectively. What a contrast to the likes of Longbridge, for instance 80 years ago.
Amazing how times have changed.
What a great company! 👏👏👏 Thank you very much for the tour, and I am really impressed 😍😍😍
Here in Spain we have some BYD electric buses, and I am sure that the buses that you have showed would be awesome in our streets 😁😁😁
Wouldn't be surprised if there are some already. If not, I doubt it'll be too long. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Impressive stuff..
Some serious effort going into testing their buses.
Interesting video, thanks for showing this 😀👍
No problem Chris.
Good job. Very informative.
Glad you liked it.
Extremely interesting very well put together and above all informative. Regards Séamus from Dublin Ireland.
Thanks Seamus. Glad you enjoyed it.
Himalayan salt + black pepper in a grinder. Heaven every single day.
Well i mean it sounds good. Not sure I'd eat it on a bus though.
@ OMG, 😆 this comment was for the previous video I had watched and I must have typed too late after your video had started. Thanks for the funny remark though 🤣. Big fan here.
@@leviwanyoike Haha. I suspected as much but I didn't want to jump the gun.
We have a lot of Yutong diesel buses and a Yutong plant in Venezuela
the bus at 2:48 is one of ours actually, but it's manufactured in China; they were actually being delivered a couple of weeks ago
Awesome. So they manufacture abroad too.
Very sophisticated testing. I'm impressed.
As was I. Didn't expect his companies went to those lengths. I have a relative who works at a UK bus company and I'm pretty sure they don't go to those levels.
@@InsideChinaAuto well if they are the largest bus maker, they have the money to go all out
smaller companies tend to eke by from what I can tell by recent bankruptcies.
These are the exact same buses driving in Astana, Kazakhstan
They're getting clean public transport. Good on them.
I Love the tour around the factory,.. i am privileged to be driving this Yutong Electric Bus in Qatar,.. they are reliable and fun to drive😀
Awesome. Nice to see where your bus is likely made, eh?
@@InsideChinaAuto Very glad😎
AMAZING. 👍👍
It's pretty impressive, especially compared to how I know things are being done at UK bus companies.
Impressive !!!!
It's a really professional establishment. I've seen behind the scenes of some of the UK companies doing buses and they simply can't compare to this.
These are great buses. Wow
Certainly helps having next-level facilities, eh?
I'm impressed!
It is a very impressive facility.
Beautiful Bus 🚌
Certainly looks very comfortable
@@InsideChinaAuto Yes! I watch your video Full and I have see, It's very comfortable
Absolutely great video...much appreciated..few comments:
- the cold testing: i believe China has some serious cold places (as well as hot places) where they can test those buses. are their tests performed only in house or do they test them out in real outdoor temperatures?
- are the batteries manufactured by them or outsourced?
- i used to think that BYD was the biggest E-bus manufaturer...i guess i was wrong..
- beautiful bus @ 17:34
great tech indeed...never thought a video about buses would be this interesting! well done...
it is a profitable company by the way...
Glad you enjoyed the video. I do believe they test in real world conditions too in the hot and cold places in China. I think they do make their own batteries.
Coincidentally. I saw a post on a Facebook bus page, where a BYD EV bus, in Aberdeen of all places was allegedly having to delay it's journey to allow the battery to cool down.
Facebook groups doing their thing, obviously! With the usual snidey remarks about lack of testing and build quality etc! 🙄 Hey ho!
Haven't been to BYD but I'm fairly sure they're putting a lot of effort in. I don't use Facebook precisely for reasons like that.
@@InsideChinaAuto I brush off stuff like that. I'm a BMC/BL/Rover fan. It's familiar territory. There's also a great deal of deja vu too. How they laughed at the Japanese imports in the sixties. How they laughed at the Koreans in the Seventies! Now look where they all are now
I imagine the jobs at the factories are quite sought after too?
@PaddyWV I'd certainly imagine so, yes. Couldn't believe how good the conditions were in there. I've been to many auto factories and they're usually quite hot, especially in China's summers, but the climate was perfect.
Also a big BL/Rover fan, as bad as they were. Still have my original Rover Mini, my first car, from 1993. Nature is trying to claim it back since I'm not there to drive/look after it but I'll make sure it goes nowhere.
Wrightbus build here in Northern Ireland delivered a dozend or so to Derry last year and the same happened in the first couple of months. I think it was the motor's so
伦敦市在10几年前就购买了比亚迪的电动双层巴士，我没看到伦敦市民说比亚迪巴士有问题的新闻。
Excellent, informative video.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great content❤
Glad you enjoyed it.
In Germany around Zusmarshausen and at the Chargerstation I´ve seen so many Electric Buses. So cool too! :)
Good to see Germany is electrifying their fleet. I guess Mercedes buses.
AMAZING. B Y D. LONG. LIVE. CHINA. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is Yutong, not BYD.
10:30 These articulated buses definitely didn't go to Europe, they were launched in Pakistan this summer. You can see Arabic inscriptions on them.
I believe they went to Morocco as the sticker on the front of the bus said.
@@InsideChinaAuto You're right, there is also "Société de Transport Public" written there.😊Some other journalists shoot army green solo buses with four colors flag on it's front - these went to Venezuela for a change.
This was a very interesting report. But I would also like to know the range of the electric buses, the recharge time, number of cycles, and the cost.
I asked Yutong and they recommended you go here. en.yutong.com/contact/
Guess because it depends on the bus and where you're buying it for a lot of stuff.
Indeed, great things coming out of China! The bus is pretty impressive with features that spell comfort , but people might not be
confident in a self driven bus because of safety! What if another vehicle runs into it on a busy highway close to a bridge? My thought!
Wow really great video , Yutong busses are really impressive,well done to this Chinese manufacturer. I wonder what prices though for standard electric bus & small electric busses are. Thank you.
Yutong say your best bet is to look on their site, since they have a lot of buses and obviously it'll depend on the bus and the market you're buying in. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Fascinating video🙏🏼
They're doing some interesting stuff, stuff I honestly never imagined bus companies would be doing.
Did they have double deck electric buses, I know london and HK currently use BYD
I believe they do, in fact they may well be selling some to the UK for London very soon, but I didn't see any on site.
Very interesting and comprehensive report, thx. I'd like to see a few of these trialed with National Express. Just spent 3.5hrs on a N/Ex standard coach which these days is a Portuguese Caetano bodied tri-axle Scania. My god! What an uncomfortable coach. Lot of road noise. Lot's of engine/transmission noise. Lot's of rattles from poorly engineered coachwork. Deeply uncomfortable seats. It's the coachwork. Don't blame Scania. I guess N/Ex buy them as they are cheap as chips. Maybe it's time to jump ship and go with Yutong?
Could be the case. Certainly doesn't sound like a pleasant experience.
There's a strange force field around your neck mate, it seems like space and time bend around it slightly.. either that or someone is trying to edit out their neckline a little ;)
Haha. I noticed that when I was editing it and wondered what the hell it was. Somebody suggested it might have been a filter on the camera. I've never used it in selfie video mode before so it's quite possible there's some auto-software in there. If it's trying to improve me it hasn't done a very good job. I've got a Pocket 3 now for such videos so shouldn't be an issue again.
Great video as usual. Just a sidenote, it might be worth putting a flashing images warning on this video as there's lots of focusing on LED lights that strobe on video. Of course this can be dangerous for some people.
Good point Dave. I'm trying to think which parts had flashing lights but regardless I'll put a note on the description.
@@InsideChinaAuto
0:18 and 1:40 are two moments, though there may be more (I started watching the video for a few mins then listened to the rest).
Related to the actual topic of the video, it's really fascinating to see the future of public transport in terms of EV buses and autonomy, and of course China is on the cutting edge!
What happened to your camera at around 3:15 where you are standing in front of a bus.When you move the camera, or you move yourself. The bus is distorted.
I'm guessing you mean the distortion. Turns out there's a bunch of it in the video whenever my face is in the frame. I think there was some kind of filter on that I wasn't aware of when filming. I noticed it after and wondered what the hell it was. I rarely film in selfie mode so didn't know it did that.
Nice video. Are there any hydrogen stations that you could do a video on?
I could certainly have a look. Not sure hydrogen is going anywhere though.
China has one which follows metal spikes in the ground, like a “track” which looks like a light rail bus. Any chance visiting that? Thanks Laurie. NZ.
I shall have to try and find whatever that is. Do you have any more information on it?
@@InsideChinaAuto Sorry just that they were speaking to the Auckland City Council here in NZ . I may have seen TH-cam videos about them last year?
@@LWJCarroll I'll see what I can find. Could make an interesting video.
I thought Youngman was the bigshot bus maker in China?
I remembered the water-fuelled bus 😂
Not sure Youngman even exist anymore. I remember them, as awful a name choice that is, but can't say I've seen one recently. BYD, Yutong, Skywell, King Long, Golden Dragon, these are the names I tend to see most often.
I wonder when Huawei will equip buses with their great autonomous system
They should be looking at it. It's a fantastic system.
@@InsideChinaAuto That's a no brainer, when you got AV tech, any vehicle can be turned autonomous! Great video, thank you.
@@etbadaboum You're welcome.
Thanks, interesting. I wonder how much they are priced at relative to ICE buses. Also, might passengers get WiFi connectivity (and serve coffee?)! Hope these buses will solve the public transport issues of cities in Asia and elsewhere.
Interesting question on the prices, I'm not sure. There will almost certainly be WiFi available, it's generally offered these days. Coffee might be a bit of a stretch.
perhaps next time you can record it in 360 as one reviewer did for his visit to a Nio factory. never viewed a 360 video on youtube but it worked and looked great and the video was great..
oh, Nio factory is something else as well...so well designed and high tech...
people dont realize where china has reached...xiaomi has opened up a mobile manufaturing facility which can produce 10 million phones a year and it runs fully on robotics! i think not a signle human works there!
I'm not a Nio fan but i reckon they produce top quality cars which can possibly outright beat any car in the world in terms of quality...after what i saw in that video i realized why their cars are priced at such level (higher end of pricing)!
you may want to make a video of a Nio plant...or another top manufacturer in China...
I was at the Nio factory with Elliott when he recorded the 360 video. My video will come out fairly soon but have a bunch of car videos to edit and publish first, including a Nio.
@@InsideChinaAuto🎉🎉 cant wait friend
I've been seeing a lot of their EV buses on Qatari roads.
Making waves around the world it seems.
The government of El Salvador has ordered about 1500 Yutong buses to replace the capital's old buses, they should arrive at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2025
Smart government
Price ?
That'll depend on where you buy it.
I had seen , the way Chinese dump trucks have their battery replaced by a robot, isn't there a way they can do the same with the buses as well. that would be really cool
I'm absolutely certain it's possible. Maybe risky though due to the low ride height and long wheelbase of buses as they could get damaged easily in some places.
Hehehe… Face filter much? My guess is you’re not vane, but maybe the phone automatically activated a slimming filter, there’s a lot of distortion around your face on some takes.
Anyway, love your videos, great work!
Haha, you know, I noticed that watching it back and I was wondering what the hell it was. I rarely ever use the front facing camera so there's likely a setting on there I don't know about. I was wondering why the background was bending around my face. Don't think it did much good whatever it was.
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Why use filters though when in selfie mode,
That wasn't intentional. I only spotted that in the edit. I never use that phone for selfie stuff so I think there was something selected I didn't know about.
They should get into the custom NEV RV business.
They have. I'm not 100% certain which part they make, the vehicle or the RV part but they had one on site. There might even be a clip of it in the b-roll.
We need, want this autonomo bus here in Brazil 🇧🇷 How much this bus?
Not sure in Brazil I'm afraid, it's likely different all over the world. Best would be to find a local agent to get an accurate number.
@@InsideChinaAuto Ok! Thank you
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We have a fan.
yutong has captured pakistan market 80%
That's impressive.
It seems that there are still too many people who don’t understand Made in China. made in China. Today, all products can be made in China. From daily necessities: toothbrushes, shoes, clothes, kitchen utensils, any supplies, electronic products: mobile phones, computers, drones, air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, LED displays, 5G transmission, various cars: traditional fuels including engines 100% manufacturing of independent, gasoline + battery hybrid, pure battery cars, buses, large heavy truck lifts, bulldozers, excavators, cargo ships and tankers. Space stations, aviation rockets, supersonic missiles, warships, various military weapons, drones, aero engines, fighter engines, and the recent breakthrough 28nm lithography machine. Huawei has photolithography machines for manufacturing 7nm chips. The medium-sized chips required for electronic products come from China, and its lithography machine production accounts for 60% of the world's production. The above products can be 100% independently designed and manufactured in China. China has countless software engineers and hardware engineers
Indeed. China used to make the world's tat and cheap crap but those days are long gone. They still make much of that, but now they make high-tech stuff as well and everything in between.
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Bus fan.
An IED - Incendiary Explosive Device - sabotage-test needs to be added. A tiny remote-controllable magnetic/adhesive IED device could/can easily cause any lithium ion battery pack to burst into flames - a very small IED only needs to contain a few grams of plastic explosive + incendiary material/fluid to blow a 2-3 inch hole in the battery pack with the incendiary material/fluid making a blaze inevitable. (Possibly slightly less inevitable with LFP batt-packs)
A nail or spike test is good - but everyone still seems to be in denial about the threat of targeted + coordinated anti-EV, blaze-igniting IED sabotage attacks.
Paul G
Jeez, that sounds scary. Has it ever been shown that anyone has tried such a thing so far?
@@InsideChinaAuto Here's a comment of the kind that I (and I alone !) occasionally post in order to try to break the deafening silence on the almost totally taboo subject of targeted co-ordinated IED EV attacks - but first a few e-bus fire vids - key truth-giveaway - almost all EV fires illogically occur in vehicles that are parked, unoccupied, inactive and therefore under zero load/payload stress with minimal risk of thermal runaway/battery overheating. Saboteurs clearly don''t want or need to cause fatalities - non-stop global EV blaze headlines and reports are enough to help seriously and constantly undermine consumer and investor confidence in all things EV-related - just one of many weapons in the anti-EV hit-squads' armoury.
Here're just a few typical, ultra-suspicious, counter-logical but ostensibly "random" e-Bus fire videos. Magnetic/adhesive IED placed under bus against battery compartment = my logical verdict until convincingly proven otherwise:
1)th-cam.com/video/T71cVhxG_v4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zl9Id74CrVaY452X
2)th-cam.com/video/O8p4JUwb680/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g5MZ0d2ArAv7fpyt
And here's a recent comment to Carscoops - re yet another counter-logical fire in an EV (Mercedes) that is parked, inactive, unoccupied - ergo under zero load/payload etc stress:
"It's very odd and suspicious that these EV fires(or remote-controlled/timed IED sabotage attacks?) almost always only happen when the vehicle is parked motionless and unoccupied somewhere eg. a car-park, on a cargo ship, at a charge-point or in someone's garage when they're in bed. If these were genuinely random, spontaneous fires they'd also be happening anywhere, anytime and when the vehicles(including high-load electric school buses and trucks/semis) are occupied and being driven.
Indeed lithium ion(not LFP) fires would be most likely to happen when an EV is being driven very fast for a long time on very hot days - especially after a superfast full re-charge.
On a positive note - let's all hope that these ostensibly random, spontaneous fires will persuade and pressure CATL to accelerate the roll-out of BOTH their ultra-long-range, superfast-charge Shenxing Plus LFP/Lithium Iron Phoshate battery packs (which are far less prone to thermal runaway/overheating) AND their next-gen sodium ion cells which can happily tolerate extremely hot/cold operating temperatures(-40C to +60C) and are thus radically less susceptible to thermal runaway and "spontaneous" combustion.
But that said - obviously tiny remote-controlled magnetic/adhesive incendiary devices can bring down planes, helicopters etc and cause almost any variety of gasoline or battery-powered vehicle to burst into flames.
Hmm - I wonder if 'spontaneous' eVTOL/e-plane 'mystery' fires will soon be making headlines and fuelling even more EV hatred, truth-blind rage, ridicule and rabid hostility...
Paul G
(To Carscoops
www.carscoops.com/2024/08/mercedes-ev-burst-into-flames-in-underground-parking-21-people-injured-due-to-smoke/ )
Have you ever seen a combustion vehicle that suffered an ied attack? I’ve seen plenty. Mostly they’re totally destroyed. No different between a ruptured fuel tank & a battery. Silly comment
Try that on a plane or your ice car see how safe it is
@@hughmarcus1 IED's are designed and sized for purpose to meet varying objectives and priorities. Ergo - your comment is totally irrelevant. Large IED's overtly designed to destroy an ICE vehicle and its occupants have no relevance to the subject under discussion - namely tiny IED's designed/sized to covertly and untraceably blow a small hole in a battery pack simultaneously using a tiny amount of incendiary material/fluid to ensure that a fire/blaze is inevitable. I'm referring for example to remote-control IEDs the size of a smartphone battery - indeed even designed to look exactly like a cell phone battery in the event of police or other security checks.
So relatively big war/assassination ICE IED's versus EV blaze IED's = Apples & Pears.
Paul G
They sure do waste a lot of money and resources on showmanship.
If they run a media visit every day of the week then yes, they probably do, but they don't.
in china the lifespan of their bus is only 1 year, after that it is back to the recycling plant. usually after 1 year of abuse on the road, they can clock 300 to 400 thousand kms
I can tell you where I live, there are some buses that look like they've been going a LOT longer than that, properly battered, still somehow EVs.
In the news three months ago, Yutong pure electric buses had actually operated for 900,000 kilometers on a bus line in Guangdong, China.
It is currently the one with the most accumulated mileage in operation.
@@oyakefire That's impressive. Wonder if it's in Shenzhen. The entire bus and taxi fleets there are electric. About 80,000 vehicles or something like that.
@@InsideChinaAuto Yes,the bus in Shenzhen No. 208.
I did not get the logic behind this water test. You are wearing boot covers so your boots do not get wet and at the end bus is at an inclination so water is getting out. What's unique about it? Remind me, what have i missed?
It is important that the bus does not stop in the middle of a water puddle on the street. Therefore, it must be designed with this in mind, and the completed units must be tested to ensure, for example, that the protection of electrical wiring is properly constructed.
The guy below explained it pretty well, but basically you go into the pool, drive to one end, back again, then repeat 3-5 times. The purpose is to prove the bus' electrics, drivetrain and interior electrics, keep on working so you're not just stranded in a flood. The incline was only at the end so we could all get off the bus but we'd been in the water a good ten minutes or so. That wouldn't have been so exciting to watch though.
DI water spray sounds like de-ionised water spray
I believe you're right.
Yutong ZK6127HYG 🗿🗿🗿🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳💪💪💪
Crazy model number.
@@InsideChinaAuto there is!
A refreshingly high IQ and matter-of-fact presenter and video - he sounds like an engineering or science graduate. But is this barely known, rarely hyped, mega-futuristic company really bigger/better than BYD when it comes to electric buses?
I've not yet watched to the end of the video but I'm also hoping we'll be told who supplies the battery packs and if CATL's ultra-long range superfast-charge Shenxing Plus LFP cells will be trialled / adopted at some point...
PS. I'll assume that almost all bus-stops in China have digital displays showing in minutes how far away the next 2-3 buses are..
Paul G
I believe they make their own packs at Yutong but I'll have to check that out for you. As for all bus stops having digital signs, certainly a lot do but not all, though there's usually an app where you can check exactly where the next buses are and how long they'll take.
Good luck China's form Sydney Australia 🦘
Luck is earned in my experience.
When will India develop such technologies?😊
In my opinion, it needs clear governance from the top. I've never had the fortune of visiting India but my understanding is that it's still quite a bit more chaotic than China. Say what you will about the government model in China, it helps give a very clear direction for the future and businesses thrive on knowing where the country is going and what they'll get to help it.
They could have better design with vintage lines in mind
My wife's hometown actually has some vintage style buses. They're very interesting.
Mercedes Benz ist also A big Player!
They are indeed. They haven't invited me to their facilities though.
You completely ignore the Polish bus Brand Solaris.
@@alexandermathar7780 the realy good and germany Bus company get unter presure from Solaris.
@alexandermathar7780 There are many bus brands I don't mention in the video, but these are the largest EV bus makers in the world.
Why are these vehicles not being built and exported to the world from America instead of China?
Too busy building and exporting weapons of war.
Also it will be 3 to 4 times the price and lower in quality.
Trillion investment of your this industry technology advancement
Something like that.
@@InsideChinaAuto yes
China has been good at engineering: The Great Wall and Dams. I think its language is too difficult to memorize for modern times. There are diverse regional languages, and Chinese people communicate by written language.
Made in China with common interest to make it a great nation without labor unions.
Their skills might be useful in building space stations and connecting Eurasia.
If only they'd be allowed to do so. They're pretty hot on bridges too and built one in Croatia I believe.
China is 100 years ahead of everyone else 😂
Certainly feels that way at times though I assure you it's not like that in every area.
Does YUTONG Bus Company treats its workers Humanely??
Certainly didn't see any robots crying in there, and the climate in the final assembly line was wonderful for such a hot day.
Its Normal Demo unit is made excellent and beyond standard.. where can you find demo unit is sub par or made with defect?? its business!!😂
I don't know about their reputation elsewhere but I can only report on the things we saw at the event.
We are screwed. Mass unemployment.
Not sure I'd want to dip the bus in all those vats with my bare hands.
Why put a filter on your face, though?
That was unintentional. I only spotted it in the edit when I realised the background looked funny. I still don't know what the filter was as I rarely use that phone in selfie mode.
What is with these bot comments?
Which ones are bots?
take my scooter
I'll never argue with a scooter. I love them. Total freedom.
15:16 measure radiated (outwards) as well as resistance to absorbed (susceptibility, inwards) radio waves across a range of frequencies.
There you go. There's an expert here in the comments.
DI water = deionized water
There you go, thanks for that. They likely told me that at the time but when you're trying to make a video, shuffling along with a bunch of other talking journalists and trying to listen at the same time it's not easy.
무시무시한 중국의 현실~~
한국은 입으로만 다한다.
언론은 이러한 중국을 보도하지 않는다
Ah you guys are doing pretty well with your stuff, far better than most other countries.
Byd is the biggest ev maker not youtong
Biggest EV bus maker, not biggest EV maker.
if Trump Want to compete Look Forward to Future , then the Education System have to improve like China Engineers and Scientist
And that doesn't happen overnight. Takes many years of investment.
Are you a Russophobe? For you, there is no RUSSIA? Or do you not know Russian winters, maybe you have never been to RUSSIA?😏
Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Where do I mention Russia? I've only ever been to the airport in Russia but would love to see more of the place at some point.
imagine if one of those catches fire
What's the point? They do all this work to make sure it doesn't.
Welp...gg from the USA. We're absolutely fukt
It's not looking good in China at least.
the world warps around your face faceapp ?
Yeah, it seems there was some filter on that I wasn't aware of until I went to edit the video, not that it improved anything whatever it was.
yutong is more better than byd.
I'll have to do a comparison.
Imagine all the pollution generated by the batteries used in those busses
Yeah, all zero tailpipe emissions of it
We want to see the buses, not your face
Go and wait for a bus then.