What is a heavy truck?

Heavy truck is an authentic, traditional and informal name for heavy truck and semi-trailer tractor, including all kinds of special vehicles (sprinkler, fire truck, road sweeper, tanker, mixer, etc. ), dump trucks (tractors, all with lifts), trucks (freight, including animals) and some rare off-road vehicles (mostly military).

At present, there are nearly 30 manufacturers engaged in the production of heavy trucks in China, but more than 90% of the market share is concentrated in the top nine, namely China FAW, Dongfeng Group, China Heavy Duty Truck, Shaanxi Automobile Group, Foton Motor, Beiben Heavy Duty Truck, SAIC Hongyan and two automobile companies in Anhui, Valin Automobile and Jianghuai Automobile.

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The booming production and sales of market performance makes the demand for self-produced powertrain of heavy truck automakers more and more intense. An industry expert commented that the relationship between automobile manufacturers and diesel engine factories has gradually evolved from strategic cooperation a few years ago to equity cooperation, and there are more and more group companies in the whole industrial chain.

At present, major domestic automobile manufacturers are building or reorganizing their own diesel engine factories. Faw liberation is equipped with Xichai and Dachai, China National Heavy Duty Truck has two engine production bases, Hangfa Factory and Zhangqiu Factory, and Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Company has built a powertrain base with 30,000 Dongfeng dCi 1 1 engines.

Even Shaanxi Heavy Duty Truck, the vehicle manufacturer controlled by Weichai Power, has set foot in the field of engines and jointly produced 1 1 liter engines with Cummins. Jirui United Truck, which has just launched its product, also comes standard with the 6K large displacement engine of Yuchai United Power on its UE heavy truck platform.

In addition, in the first half of 20 1 1, a joint venture between BAIC Foton Motor Co., Ltd. and Daimler AG for medium and heavy trucks and engines is expected to be established. After the project is put into production, the annual production capacity of Mercedes-Benz OM457 series engines will reach 45,000 units.