Recently, Weichai Group, a leading player in the Chinese equipment manufacturing industry, announced that Weichai natural gas engines sold more than 20,000 units in the first half of 2013, with sales reaching a record high.
In 2013, under the call of the National Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction, domestic internal combustion engine companies have increased the production and sales of natural gas engines. In the first half of the year, natural gas engine sales increased by 43.72% year-on-year, which was higher than the average level of the internal combustion engine industry, which was an increase of nearly 160% from the same period in 2012. The comprehensive market share reached 48%, becoming the "bright spot" of the engine market.
With the gradual advancement of the national economic sustainable development strategy, as the main force of energy consumption, internal combustion engine companies have also put forward higher requirements for their own development.
Weichai Group Chairman Tan Xuguang once emphasized: “The internal combustion engine is not only a large consumer of energy, but also the product with the most potential for energy-saving and emission-reduction. To grasp the Chinese internal combustion engine industry is to seize the nose of energy-saving emission reduction.” For many years, Weichai Group actively responded to the call of the nation to build a resource-conserving society, insisted on independent innovation and scientific development, and helped green energy products to promote energy conservation and emission reduction; through the development of thousands of R&D teams and “five countries and ten places” research and development bases, It has laid a good technical foundation for the research and development of green power products.
In fact, Weichai Group has been at the forefront of the industry in the research field of low carbon and environmental power, especially in the technology and application fields of alternative fuel internal combustion engine products.
In September 2011, the first in-cylinder direct-injection natural gas engine was successfully ignited successfully. This product was jointly developed by Weichai Power and Canadian Westport Corporation, and it has the advantages of strong power, excellent environmental protection, and good economy.
In March 2012, "China's first direct injection natural gas engine listing launch ceremony" was held in Beijing. The listing of this product completely broke the constraints of the original gas engine technology bottleneck and filled the domestic natural gas cylinder direct injection engine in the application. The blank in the field is a revolution in the theory of gas engine combustion and an important milestone in the history of the development of gas vehicles.
In the first half of 2013, sales of direct-injection natural gas engines in Weichai's cylinders exceeded 20,000 units, and they were well received in the fields of long-distance passenger cars, wide-body dump trucks, heavy trucks, and construction machinery that are widely used.
Green Power International Weichai, Weichai Group is to uphold the concept of independent innovation, the implementation of green energy products to promote energy-saving emission reduction commitments, effectively promote the internal combustion engine industry, energy-saving emission reduction process, for the industry's economic and ecological harmony and responsibility for their best efforts.
