Technological Revolution and Industrial Transformation

Weichai Power Releases the World"s First Diesel Engine with a Base Engine Thermal Efficiency of 51.09%, along with Major Hydrogen Energy Technology Achievements  At 9:00 am on January 8, 2022, Weichai Power released the world"s first diesel engine with a base engine thermal efficiency of 51.09% and major achievements in hydrogen technology achievements. Tan Xuguang, CPC Secretary and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Chairman of Weichai Power and Director of the Academic Committee of the National Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Center, reported the research findings of the world"s first diesel engine with a base engine thermal efficiency of 51.09% developed by Weichai Power, the operation of the National Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Center and the "Hydrogen for Every Home" technology demonstration project. TüV SüD, an world-renowned test authority, issued a certificate of thermal efficiency of 51.09% to Weichai Power. Then the delivery ceremony of hydrogen-powered heavy-du...

2022-01-11

Forerunner Weichai Puts another 150 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses into Weifang City

At 10 a.m. on June 1, "Hydrogen Energy Demonstration City in Weifang" and 150 Weichai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses Operation Ceremony was held. After the first launch in 2019, Weichai once again put a large number of hydrogen fuel cell buses into Weifang. Weichai’s hydrogen power in the buses has passed the high/low temperature, reliability and durability verification. The maximum cruising mileage is 600km, and the life span exceeds 20,000 hours. The stack power density reaches 2.0kW/L, and its outstanding performances such as cost, reliability, and life are leading in the world. Tan Xuguang expressed that Weichai is ushering in a period of opportunity for the development of hydrogen power to middle and high levels. We must seize the opportunity to form a comprehensive advantage of leading technology and commercialization, and provide Shandong with the force for new driver growth replacement and industry upgrading.

2020-06-01

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2020-04-03

Weichai's Plant with Capacity of 20,000 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines Is Put into Operation

At 2:00 p.m. on March 31, Chairman Tan Xuguang of Weichai Group announced that Weichai's new plant, with a capacity of 20,000 hydrogen fuel cell engines, was officially put into operation! This is a key step by which Weichai's hydrogen fuel cell engine business is heading to the world-class commercial field, laying a solid industrial foundation for Shandong Province to build a "city based on green power of hydrogen". In 2018, Weichai fully started the construction of the fuel cell industrial park, and completed the fuel cell engine and stack production line with a capacity of 20,000 sets. It is currently the largest hydrogen fuel cell engine manufacturing base in the world. At the same time, Weichai has successively built three skid-mounted hydrogenation stations, one 1,000 kg fixed hydrogenation station, seven special bus lines, and put in more than 200 hydrogen fuel cell buses in Shandong, becoming one of the enterprises with the largest hydrogen fuel cell commercial vehicle output ...

2020-03-31

Weichai Power Announces Strategic Investment in Aradex AG, Embracing the Whole Industrial Chain of New Energy

(16 December 2019) - Weichai Power Co., Ltd. ("Weichai Power" or "the Company", HKEX: 2338, SZSE: 000338) has announced its strategic acquisition of Aradex AG, another global strategic attempt in the new energy power systems industry following its strategic investment in Ballard Power and Ceres Power. Weichai Power has not only mastered key technologies of traditional powertrain for heavy duty commercial vehicles so far, but also successfully integrated "battery, motor and electronic control" into a whole new energy power system to propel the whole industrial chain, coupled with the power of Aradex AG. Those achievements paved the way for Weichai Power to be "a global leader in new energy industry by 2030"- its strategy planning, in terms of advanced product and technology. Since founded in 1989, Aradex AG has been committed to the R&D of motor, electric control and power supply for industrial and transportation industry, and now has become a pioneer in high power variable frequency a...

2019-12-16