Yutong

Autonomous buses

Yutong trialled its first autonomous bus in 2015 and has produced a wide range of autonomous models since.^[9] Public trials of its first generation 8-seat Xiaoyu vehicle commenced 2019 at the Boao Forum for Asia and in Zhengzhou.^[17][18] Autonomous buses have also been used to transport workers around Yutong's Zhengzhou assembly plant.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2021, Yutong claimed to have delivered 100 models of its 10-seat Xiaoyu 2.0 autonomous bus for use in Zhengzhou. The Xiaoyu 2.0 has also been delivered to the cities of Guangzhou, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Sansha and Changsha, with public trials due to commence in July 2021 in Zhengzhou.^{[19][20][better source needed]}

Cuba

Yutong holds a strong presence in Cuba since entering the Cuban bus market in 2005. That May, Yutong exported 400 buses to the country, which at the time set an export record for a Chinese bus manufacturer. This record was broken in October by an order for 630 buses, then broken again in May 2007 by an export order for 5,348 buses.^[21] By 2017, Yutong had sold over 6,000 buses and coaches for service across Cuba.^[22]

In November 2017, Yutong delivered Cuba's first electric bus, a Yutong E12, which entered service in the country's capital with the Havana Transit Company.^[22]

Spain

Ten Yutong ZK6140BD airside buses, equipped with six doors and capable of carrying 160 passengers, were delivered to Madrid Airport in April 2019.^[23]

United Kingdom

Yutong first entered the United Kingdom bus and coach market in 2014 through supplying diesel-powered coaches through Pelican Bus and Coach to independent coach operators.^[24]

Yutong would become a major supplier of battery electric single-deck city buses to operators across England, Scotland and Wales through the Yutong E10 and the longer E12. Both buses are in service with a number of large operators, including McGill's Bus Services, the largest operator of Yutong buses in the United Kingdom,^[25] Newport Bus,^[26] Cardiff Bus,^[27] Go North East,^[28] Stagecoach Highlands,^[29] First West Yorkshire^[30] and Centrebus in Leicester.^[31] Yutong's battery electric TCe12 coach has also sold to a small number of coach operators across the United Kingdom, with Ember Core's fleet of TCe12s being used to operate a network of intercity express services across Scotland.^[32]

Yutong continued to expand its range of battery electric buses for UK operators from 2023 onwards, initially through launching the E9 midibus, with the first examples being delivered in early 2023 to Centrebus for the free Hop! bus service in Leicester.^[33][34] Two U11DD 10.9 metres (36 ft) electric double-decker buses, based on similar buses sold in the Chinese and Singaporean markets, entered service as UK market demonstrators in late 2023,^[35][36] while National Express Coaches took delivery of a GTe14 tri-axle electric coach for trials on coach services between Victoria Coach Station and London Stansted Airport during March 2024.^[37]

Malaysia

Public bus operator Handal Indah (Causeway Link) procured low-entry diesel Yutong ZK6118HGA, ZK6126HG, ZK6128HG and ZK6800HNGAA buses in huge quantities.

Saudi Arabia

Following a trial of a Yutong ZK6772BEV at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a Yutong E11, Saudi Arabia's first electric city bus, was delivered for service in Jeddah in March 2023, part of the Saudi Vision 2030 framework towards reducing the Kingdom's dependency on oil.^[38] 550 diesel-powered Yutong C13 PRO coaches for use in Riyadh and on intercity bus routes were subsequently delivered to the Saudi Public Transport Company over the course of 2023, with ten of these allocated to and specially upgraded for transporting members of the House of Saud.^[39]

Singapore

In 2009, SMRT Buses received a Yutong ZK6126HGC diesel trial bus. It was the first China-made bus to be operated by a Singapore public transport operator. Registered as SMB135E, it was permanently deployed on Route 854 until the end of its trial in 2010. No further purchases were made. SMB135E was deregistered, returned to the dealership, and re-registered as PH8811S under private transport operator Bedok Transport after the trial. Bedok Transport deployed the bus on Scheme B route 621.

In 2018, as part of a small scale purchase of 60 electric buses, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore procured ten Yutong E12 battery electric single-deck buses as well as ten Yutong E12DD electric double-deck buses. The Yutong E12s entered service with Tower Transit Singapore, Go-Ahead Singapore and SMRT Buses in April 2020,^[40] initially deployed on routes 15, 66, 944, 983, and 990 ^[41]; while the Yutong E12DDs later entered service in October 2020 with the same operators.^[42][43] In December 2024, SMRT Buses moved their Yutong E12 and E12DD units from Tower Transit's Bulim Depot to its own Woodlands Depot, and redeployed the Yutong buses to Woodlands Town routes 904, 912M and 962.

Qatar

In preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar, 888 Yutong battery electric buses, an increase from an initial order of 741 made in 2020, were delivered to state-owned bus operator Mowasalat (Karwa). Some of these buses, which operated shuttle services to and from football venues and subway stations over the course of the World Cup, were based in a 400,000 square feet (37,000 m²) purpose-built bus depot in Lusail that was described as the world's largest, with space to store and charge 478 electric buses, as well as hosting 24 ancillary buildings on the site.^[44][45]

Yutong's involvement in the 2022 World Cup was followed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding in April 2023 between Yutong and Mowasalat, with the companies planning to co-operate on the development of electric commercial vehicles in Qatar.^[46]

Uzbekistan

168 Yutong ZK6122H9 intercity coaches were delivered to Uzbekistan operator Uzavtoservis in 2019, with the first 100 being delivered by March and the remaining 68 delivered in April.^[47]

Twenty Yutong ZK6126BEVG battery electric single decker buses, as well as ten battery chargers, were delivered to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent in February 2022, entering service with the city's bus operator Tosh-Shakhar-Trans-Khizmat. These were followed by 40 Yutong T7 minibuses, delivered to Samarkand in April 2022 in advance of the 2022 SCO summit, which was being held in the city.^[48]

Yutong received an order for 500 CNG buses and 300 Yuwei E12 battery electric buses for operators across Uzbekistan, the largest export order for the company to date. The first batches of buses from this order began to be delivered from early 2023.^[49]