Yutong

Yutong is the bus and coach brand of Zhengzhou Yutong Group, a Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Zhengzhou, Henan. Its origins go back to the Zhengzhou Bus Repair Factory, established in 1963, and Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. was founded in 1993. In March 1997 it became the first bus company in China listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Yutong began exporting buses worldwide in 2005, opened its New Energy plant for electric buses in 2012, and in 2015 ran what it describes as the world's first road trial of an autonomous bus, between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng. The brand's range covers electric city buses, double-deckers, intercity coaches, minibuses and autonomous shuttles, and by 2026 Wikipedia describes it as the world's largest bus and coach manufacturer by volume. The wider group also includes Yutong Heavy Industries, a construction equipment maker formed in 2003.