As China’s economy continues to grow, the logistics industry has entered a period of rapid development, with transportation demand expanding and cost reduction and efficiency improvement becoming essential needs of the industry. The surge in gas-powered heavy-duty trucks in 2023 marked the beginning of the energy transformation of commercial vehicles, as clean power and independent technologies accelerated their rise.
As the culmination of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle’s independent power technologies, the Loong-Gine brand has undergone continuous iteration and upgrading in recent years. Independent power has become a core technical advantage of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle, continuously helping to enhance customer value. Now, as technological achievements mature, Loong-Gine Power has entered a critical stage of comprehensive verification through real-market operations. In mid-July, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle will officially launch the “Loong-Gine Journey of Ten Thousand Miles” practical verification campaign, focusing on typical transportation scenarios, penetrating five core regions across the country, and conducting full-scenario operational tests under real working conditions and routes. It aims to earn genuine reputation through solid strength and assist customers in stable development.
Measuring All Scenarios with Steps, Verifying True Value through Practice
From technology implementation to value realization, every step of Loong-Gine has been steady and grounded, closely aligned with user value. The “Loong-Gine Journey of Ten Thousand Miles” series of activities is a in-depth practical verification, allowing technology to speak through practice and products to prove themselves in operations.
The campaign will focus on full-chain, full-working-condition, and full-process on-site inspections, centering on users’ real operational scenarios. Through on-site route operations, typical working condition verifications, and user practical operations, it will systematically test the adaptability and comprehensive value of Loong-Gine power chains in diverse transportation tasks. The verification scope covers five regions: Shandong (East), Sichuan (West), Guangdong (South), Xinjiang (North), and Henan (Central), focusing on typical application scenarios such as hazardous chemical transportation, mineral transportation, express delivery, and trunk-line logistics, with representative routes selected as the main battlefield. These include: high-speed hazardous chemical transportation from Dongying to Longkou, mountainous gas transportation from Beichuan to Leshan, high-frequency express distribution from Zhongshan to Xiaolan, plateau mineral heavy-haul transportation from Yecheng to Hongliutan, and inter-provincial trunk-line transportation from Luoyang to Shijiazhuang.
It is reported that the campaign will last for one month. During this period, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle will join hands with multiple authoritative industry media to record operational results, customer feedback, and technical performance on the front line, presenting a true market report of Longqing Power. The “Loong-Gine Journey of Ten Thousand Miles” is about to set off, and the outstanding performance of Longqing in terminal operations is worth looking forward to.
Deploying Independent Power, Loong-Gine Power Accelerates Iteration
As an important support for the independent technology strategy, the Loong-Gine brand has always adhered to the development logic of “coming from customers and going to customers” since its establishment, upholding the value concept of “reliability, intelligence, and greenness”, and continuously building products and iterating technologies around customers’ operational needs.
Since the release of the Loong-Gine brand in 2019, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle has always adhered to a customer operation-oriented approach, continuously promoting the improvement of independent power capabilities. From the 1.0 stage focusing on the performance optimization of the three core assemblies (engine, gearbox, axle), to the 2.0 stage achieving chain synergy and the construction of energy-saving priority strategies for specific scenarios, and now to the construction of an integrated smart power chain in the 3.0 stage, Loong-Gine has completed a systematic leap from technological breakthrough to product maturity. Every iteration is based on practice and oriented to the terminal.
Relying on the Loong-Gine 3.0 platform, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle has built a diversified technology matrix with “fuel and gas as the mainstay, hydrogen energy and hybrid as supplements”. In May 2025, the Loong-Gine DA12 Smart AMT Customer Experience Day was successfully held in Zhengzhou. Through multi-dimensional displays such as static exhibitions and dynamic test drives, the smart performance of Loong-Gine DA12 was fully demonstrated, winning high praise from more than 100 customer representatives and industry media across the country. DA12 became an instant hit, and the brand voice and influence of Longqing reached new heights.
As a key initiative to implement technological achievements in the market and consolidate reputation, the “Loong-Gine Journey of Ten Thousand Miles” not only demonstrates Longqing’s core values of “reliability, intelligence, and greenness” once again but also promotes the continuous deepening of the long-term strategy of independent power. In the future, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle will continue to firmly pursue the development direction of independent power, focus on customers’ real needs, accelerate technology implementation and scenario verification, continuously break through power boundaries, and inject sustained impetus into the efficient transformation of China’s logistics industry with more reliable quality, smarter technologies, and greener concepts.
