On May 29, 2026, coinciding with National Science and Technology Workers' Day, Yuchai Group grandly held a special event for the 2026 National Science and Technology Workers' Day, officially launching the K-Power Five-Dimensional Technology Brand along with eight entirely new self-developed products, and committing an additional 93.3 million yuan in special science and technology innovation reward funds to incentivize scientific innovation and R&D, comprehensively demonstrating the enterprise's hardcore strength and strategic determination in empowering industrial upgrading and leading transformation in the power industry through technological innovation.
A technology brand serves as the core vehicle for an enterprise's core technology system and long-term competitiveness. The K-Power Five-Dimensional Technology Brand unveiled this time is Yuchai's second systematic technology brand following the Flywheel Range-Extender technology brand, encompassing the Benting, Chunqu, Panqing, Yunxing, and Tianshu five core technology systems, corresponding respectively to the technological advantages across five core performance dimensions: power performance, fuel economy, reliability, comfort, and intelligence. The official launch of this brand represents Yuchai's strategic-level technology deployment aligned with new energy and low-carbonisation industry trends, marking the enterprise's scientific innovation development entering a brand-oriented, systematic, and high-end new phase, and establishing a new benchmark for technology iteration and upgrading in China's EV sector.
The event simultaneously showcased 8 entirely new self-developed products, comprehensively covering three core tracks: traditional power, new energy power, and intelligent equipment, precisely matching market demands across multiple scenarios including marine transportation, heavy-duty mining, comprehensive energy, and high-end intelligent manufacturing, achieving technology innovation across all product domains.
In the traditional power sector, multiple flagship models achieved performance breakthroughs. The new-generation YC6GL medium-speed diesel engine integrates Yuchai's Chunqu 5, Panqing 5, and Tianshu 5 three core technologies, suitable for various marine equipment including coastal transport vessels, fishing boats, and engineering tugboats, achieving upgrades in equipment reliability and durability while effectively reducing fuel consumption and subsequent operation and maintenance costs, with significantly improved overall cost-effectiveness.
The heavy-duty gas flagship power YCK16N gas engine stands as an industry benchmark product, equipped with Panqing 5 and Chunqu 5 technologies, delivering maximum horsepower of 750 hp and peak torque of 3,400 Nm, achieving the industry's lowest gas consumption rate among engines of the same displacement, balancing powerful performance with energy-saving advantages, and improving comprehensive transportation efficiency by 15% across all scenarios. The YCK32 high-end diesel engine designed for heavy-duty mine conditions precisely matches heavy-duty equipment including 100-ton-class mining dump trucks, large fracturing trucks, and drilling equipment, reducing fuel consumption by 10%-15% compared to similar industry models, with operating condition adaptability and overall performance comparable to imported high-end power equipment.
The new energy track welcomed significant technological achievements, with Yuchai officially launching the hydrogen-electric coupling integrated solution. This solution deeply integrates the advantages of hydrogen energy and electric power as two major green energy sources, featuring core characteristics including zero-carbon environmental protection, long duration energy storage (LDES), multi-energy complementarity, and flexible energy conversion, effectively improving the utilization rate of green and clean energy consumption, with broad applications in scenarios such as marine comprehensive energy islands, industrial park comprehensive energy supply systems, and micro power grids in remote and special areas, providing a new technological pathway for distributed green energy deployment.
The intelligent equipment track also yielded fruitful results, with 4 innovative products and core technologies released this time, achieving multiple industry-first breakthroughs. Among them, the 806 integral axle housing and 15MD00 generator set crankshaft pioneered the industry's "iron replacing steel" process implementation, built upon iron mold coated sand casting technology, combining the dual advantages of lightweight and high strength, filling the gap in China's integrated casting technology for large power components. The new YC-U400 cradle-type five-axis machining center adopts a fully direct-drive integrated structural design, achieving dual-axis zero-backlash transmission, with part machining precision reaching Ra0.8, overall machining efficiency improved by 40%, and significantly upgraded high-end intelligent manufacturing capabilities.
Notably, Yuchai made a global debut of the construction machinery wheel-side direct-drive control technology, innovatively integrating core technologies including wheel-side direct-drive integration, intelligent energy management, and distributed drive control, building a "mechanical-electrical, energy, and control" coordinated operation system. This technology enables a leapfrog improvement in single-machine equipment performance, with oil-to-electricity economic ratio reaching 10:1 and comprehensive energy efficiency exceeding 90%, leveraging 17 core patents to build a reusable new energy construction machinery technology platform, thoroughly resolving industry pain points of traditional construction machinery such as high energy consumption, low energy efficiency, and poor operating condition adaptability.
Regarding talent and scientific innovation incentives, the event ceremoniously recognized 17 first-prize technology achievement projects for 2025, paying tribute to the research teams and staff dedicated to core technology breakthroughs. These award-winning achievements focused on key industry shortcomings, successfully overcoming multiple "bottleneck" technical challenges, achieving dual leaps in technological breakthroughs and market value. Meanwhile, Yuchai announced continued investment of 93.3 million yuan in scientific innovation reward funds for 2026, consolidating the innovation talent cultivation system with substantial special rewards and activating the enterprise's long-term innovation vitality.
A relevant executive of Yuchai Group stated that in the future, the enterprise will be guided by the K-Power Five-Dimensional Technology Brand as its core, closely following the three major development themes of high efficiency and low carbon, diversified green energy, and digital intelligence-driven approaches, continuously building a world-class science and technology innovation system, solidifying the three-dimensional industrial layout of "traditional power as foundation, new energy power for breakthrough, and intelligent equipment for empowerment," driving the enterprise's intelligent manufacturing upgrade through full-chain technological innovation, and helping China achieve a leapfrog development from a major power industry nation to a power industry powerhouse.
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