Driven by the global economic recovery and the vigorous development of e-commerce logistics, the commercial vehicle market is welcoming a new round of growth opportunities. At the same time, the wave of new energy has also swept through the industry, becoming an irreversible development trend in the field of commercial vehicles. As a leader in China’s commercial vehicle industry, Foton Motor, with its profound technical accumulation, comprehensive product matrix, and forward-looking strategic layout, has been continuously deepening its presence in the medium and heavy truck, new energy, and overseas markets, achieving steady sales growth. With its strong market competitiveness and brand influence, it continues to lead China’s commercial vehicle industry into a new stage of high-quality development.
Data shows that in February 2025, Foton Motor sold 9,480 medium and heavy trucks, a year-on-year increase of 46.7%. The sales of new energy vehicles also increased significantly, continuing to lead the industry.
Multi-dimensional Product Layout to Achieve Full-scenario Coverage of Medium and Heavy Trucks
For many years, Foton Motor has adhered to a customer-centric approach and always oriented itself towards market and customer needs. It has built a complete product matrix covering multiple segmented markets such as tractors, trucks, dump trucks, and special-purpose vehicles, which can meet the diversified needs of different users and scenarios. At the same time, in the new energy direction, it has also achieved a full-line layout of pure electric, hybrid, and hydrogen energy, forming market competitiveness for the future.
Foton Auman Galaxy, as a representative work of Foton Motor’s high-end medium and heavy trucks, integrates a number of cutting-edge technologies and innovative designs and has created a differentiated product matrix based on the full-scenario needs of users. From the high-end luxury heavy truck Galaxy 9 focusing on long-distance trunk lines, to the efficiency flagship heavy truck Galaxy 7 focusing on medium and long-distance and long-distance trunk lines; from Galaxy 5 focusing on medium and long-distance and regional distribution, to Galaxy T covering engineering models such as dump trucks, mixers, and special-purpose vehicles, the Galaxy series of products can truly provide users with more efficient, professional, and comprehensive logistics transportation solutions in all scenarios.
At the same time, Foton Auman has successively launched a number of new large-horsepower gas products, further enhancing its market competitiveness. For example, the Auman Xinghui Edition gas vehicle is equipped with a super power chain calibrated by the Foton Cummins A15N gas engine and ZF integration. The A15N gas engine is upgraded to 580 horsepower, and the maximum torque is increased to 2,600N·m. As a comprehensive upgrade of domestic classic economic heavy trucks, the Auman Xingyi Edition is equipped with A12N/A15N gas engines, covering different horsepower from 460 to 580. These products perform excellently in logistics transportation scenarios such as express delivery, freight forwarding, general merchandise, and cold chain. With their advantages of high efficiency, fuel savings, safety, and comfort, they have won the favor of many users.
Not only that, Foton medium truck Auhang and Ruwo medium truck have also performed excellently. Among them, the Foton medium truck Auhang Zhilan 246-degree electric logistics medium truck, equipped with a 246-degree battery from CATL, has a range of nearly 300km. With its highly technological appearance, spacious and comfortable cab, and powerful power, it can achieve full coverage of logistics distribution scenarios and provide a new logistics solution for working conditions such as short-distance express delivery between warehouses. In response to the current situation of low freight rates and low income for truck drivers, Foton Auhang uses technological innovation to boost product upgrades, helps users reduce costs and increase efficiency, and launches the Foton medium truck Auhang R series 7.0L products with a new appearance and new power. The “comfort and power performance” have been significantly improved, and the energy consumption of the whole vehicle can be effectively reduced, bringing higher operation value to users. The Ruwo ES5 Pro medium truck has become a powerful tool for truck drivers’ operation with its high reliability, high load-bearing capacity, high efficiency, and high comfort.
Product as King, Technological Innovation Forges Core Competitiveness
Over the years, Foton Motor has always regarded technological innovation as the core driving force for the company’s development and continuously increased its investment in independent innovation. Foton Motor has also promoted industry technology iteration more than once. For example, it opened the era of automatic transmission for Chinese heavy trucks and was the first in the industry to achieve automatic transmission coverage for all product lines and all scenarios; the world’s first 49-ton liquid hydrogen heavy truck and the world’s first 240kW fuel cell heavy truck both come from Foton Motor. Against the backdrop of high usage costs of fuel vehicles, strict emission regulations, and the short range and slow energy replenishment of pure electric heavy trucks, Foton Motor was also the first to release the first exclusive hybrid technology platform in China’s heavy truck industry.
Foton Motor’s hybrid technology platform includes self-developed technical platforms and hardware and software technologies such as the dedicated hybrid engine DHE, the dedicated transmission DHT, and the hybrid power system DHP. It has an exclusive hardware architecture and leading software strategies, and adopts 40 technological innovations to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, more reliable, and safer. Take the Foton Auman Xinghui hybrid heavy truck as an example. The whole vehicle is equipped with the Foton Cummins A13 hybrid engine, with a maximum output horsepower of up to 520ps. By integrating the output of the motor, the overall horsepower can reach 730ps, and the peak torque can reach up to 3,900N·m. It is equipped with an exclusive 12-speed electromechanical coupling automatic transmission. Through precise control strategies and algorithms, it can achieve the predictive shifting function. In addition, with the self-developed intelligent HCU control system, it can flexibly switch among four modes: pure electric drive, engine drive, hybrid drive, and braking energy recovery according to the actual working conditions, optimize energy utilization, achieve a fuel savings of 26% in mountainous working conditions, and achieve a fuel savings of 16% in national road trunk line transportation working conditions, comprehensively reducing fuel consumption costs.
Foton Motor’s hybrid technology has significantly improved the power performance and fuel economy of hybrid products, surpassing many traditional fuel heavy trucks in the market. Its unique driving mode switching function enables this vehicle to flexibly adapt to various working conditions such as trunk line transportation and resource transportation, and it can perform well both on plains and in mountainous areas.
The continuous growth of Foton Motor’s medium and heavy truck sales is an inevitable result of Foton Motor’s adherence to innovation-driven development, focus on user needs, and improvement of service quality. In the future, Foton Motor will continue to adhere to the business philosophy of “customer-centric”, continuously increase the intensity of technological innovation, improve the product matrix, and be committed to providing users with more efficient, reliable, and intelligent logistics transportation solutions, continuously leading the development of China’s commercial vehicle industry.
