The 300 electric buses and 500 CNG buses will be delivered in batches over the course of this year to the capital city of Tashkent.

The kingdom's first electric bus to enter commercial operation serves passengers travelling between the old part of Jeddah and the districts in the north-western part of the inner city.

The order comprises a mixture of medium- to high-end models from the ‘C13 PRO’ or ‘ZK6138H’ range of 12.5-metre coaches.

In 2022, the Chinese bus and coach manufacturer delivered 30,198 units in total, of which 12,414 were electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.

Covering an area of over 400,000 square metres, the depot – which will be managed by Yutong – is composed of 24 structures with parking bays for 478 buses to dock and recharge simultaneously.

The Chinese manufacturer will build an electric bus plant for assembling knocked-down buses in the Qatar Science & Technology Park.

Yutong produced 42,065 buses and sold 41,828, a solid performance bucking the general trend of contraction in the bus market both in China and abroad.

Yutong's official UK distributor Pelican supplied Cardiff Bus with 26 E12 buses, which now make up 24% of the public transport operator's entire fleet.

Yutong announces a net-zero emission target which is ten years ahead of the People's Republic of China's national target, a first for the Chinese bus industry.

The Yutong Group of Zhengzhou in December 2020 made a strategic investment of USD200m in WeRide, an autonomous driving technology start-up company.

The world’s largest bus builder, Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co Ltd announced total deliveries (sales) of 41,756 Yutong buses to customers worldwide in 2020, which was considerably lower than the 58,688 units sold in 2019.

Yutong, together with its joint venture project partner, autonomous driving technology start-up, WeRide, has announced the companies are to deliver 200 of mini Robobus autonomous passenger transport vehicles for operations in a dedicated zone or area within Zhengzhou in the first half of 2021.