The 2025 China Commercial Vehicle Technology Conference and the 4th China Commercial Vehicle Black Technology Competition Awards Ceremony were held. Sinotruk Howo’s technology system won the highest honor and a special award at the competition for two independently developed technologies: the “XEV Distributed Drive Hybrid System” won the annual grand prize; and the “All-Aluminum Alloy Frame Pure Electric Truck” project won the “Energy Saving Technology Innovation Award.” Sinotruk Howo has set a new industry benchmark with its core technological strength, demonstrating the brand’s leading technological position.
XEV Distributed Drive Hybrid System
Faced with increasingly stringent regulations and market demands, Sinotruk Howo has focused on energy saving, consumption reduction, and experience innovation in heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Sinotruk Howo’s XEV Distributed Drive Hybrid System deeply integrates the advantages of traditional fuel vehicles and pure electric vehicles, achieving a systemic breakthrough. This system, cleverly designed to intelligently balance performance, cost, and user needs, utilizes a highly efficient “small horse pulling a heavy load” drive mode. While meeting the robust power demands of Sinotruk Howo’s heavy-duty models, it avoids the cost and range limitations of pure electric vehicles. It provides users with smooth driving control through “uninterrupted gear shifting” and a comfortable experience with “electric air conditioning while stationary,” significantly enhancing the operational value and driving quality of Sinotruk Howo products.
Currently, the Sinotruk Howo Shandeka 49-ton tractor equipped with this system has completed over 2000 hours of rigorous testing and entered customer trials, receiving unanimous praise for its fuel-saving performance. This project has built an intellectual property moat of over 10 core invention patents, marking a significant breakthrough and leading position for Sinotruk Howo in the core technology of hybrid power.
XEV Distributed Drive Hybrid System-1
In the field of pure electric technology, Sinotruk Howo has also demonstrated profound R&D capabilities. Its 18-ton pure electric truck with an all-aluminum alloy frame, which won the “Energy-Saving Technology Innovation Award,” successfully solved industry challenges such as the large frame weight, low fatigue life prediction accuracy, and complex battery installation structure of electric trucks. Sinotruk Howo has successfully developed a lightweight all-aluminum chassis that meets fatigue life requirements and can integrate a battery compartment, and completed industrialization verification, resulting in the development of an electric cargo truck with an advanced chassis layout. This is not only a product breakthrough, but also a common key technology with broad application prospects, demonstrating Sinotruk Howo’s leading strength in the field of lightweighting and electrification integration in commercial vehicle structures.
The receipt of these two prestigious awards signifies that Sinotruk Howo has reached an industry-leading level in the core technologies of hybrid powertrain and lightweighting of basic architecture for commercial vehicles. It provides the entire industry with new Sinotruk Howo technology options and solutions for reducing energy consumption and improving performance, demonstrating Sinotruk Howo’s profound systemic strength in leading technological routes and solving industry challenges.
This honor is both an affirmation and a new starting point. During the critical period of green and intelligent transformation in the commercial vehicle industry, Sinotruk Howo will continue to use its core “black technologies” as its spear and “meeting user needs” as its shield, firmly occupying the high ground of value creation and continuously consolidating its strong position as a technology leader in China’s commercial vehicle industry.
