On October 21, 2025, at Foton Motor’s X Laboratory, the launch event themed “Dawn of a New Journey” witnessed the official debut of Foton Qimingxing – a product known in the industry as the “watershed of the light truck sector”. This was not an ordinary new vehicle launch, but a complete restructuring of the underlying logic of new energy light trucks. As the world’s first light truck developed from scratch based on an exclusive pure electric platform, Qimingxing declares the end of the “fuel-to-electric conversion” era and ushers in a truly efficient, intelligent, and comfortable new era for urban distribution logistics in China and beyond.
Technological Breakthroughs Redefine Pure Electric Light Truck Standards
In recent years, the new energy light truck market has been flooded with “fuel-to-electric conversion” products modified from fuel vehicle platforms. These products suffer from inherent shortcomings in range, energy consumption, spatial layout, and driving experience, making them unable to meet the increasingly stringent demands of urban distribution. The emergence of Qimingxing is a precise response to this dilemma. Instead of making minor tweaks to an outdated framework, it builds an entirely new platform around the characteristics of electric drive from the ground up.
The vehicle adopts a “wind-resistant” aerodynamic design with a narrower front and wider rear, achieving a drag coefficient as low as 0.3 – laying the foundation for low energy consumption under high-speed conditions. The cab width reaches 2,120mm, and the internal width of the cargo compartment is 2,100mm, maximizing space with the “cab width equals cargo compartment width” design. The internal height is 1.8m for the standard roof and 2.26m for the high roof, allowing a 1.8m-tall driver to stand comfortably or even lie down to rest inside – something nearly unthinkable in traditional light trucks.
In terms of the core three-electric system (battery, motor, electronic control), Qimingxing is equipped with the industry’s pioneering 800V high-voltage platform and dual-motor central distributed drive architecture. Combined with a silicon carbide controller and a flat-wire oil-cooled motor, this system enables the drive axle to achieve an overall efficiency of 95.7%, laying a solid foundation for extreme energy efficiency. Test data shows that the vehicle’s energy consumption per 100km is reduced by 6kWh, with a range of 607km. Coupled with fast-charging technology that charges from 20% to 80% SOC in just 18 minutes, it effectively addresses the range anxiety of new energy commercial vehicles.
Foton’s intelligent driving technology in the commercial vehicle industry is well-known, and Qimingxing adopts the independently developed FEEP 2.0 electronic and electrical architecture. This architecture not only supports L2-level advanced driver assistance functions but also reserves room for upgrading to L4-level autonomy. Its pioneering FBS ultra-high-voltage energy-storage wire-controlled braking system has a response time of only 0.1 seconds – a 70% improvement over traditional systems – providing strong support for driving safety.
People-Centered Design for an Ultimate Driving Experience
Qimingxing’s innovations in humanized design reflect Foton Motor’s deep care for light truck drivers. The industry’s first 470mm first-step design is 40% lower than that of traditional light trucks, allowing drivers who get on and off frequently every day to do so with ease. While this design seems simple, it requires a complete redesign of the chassis layout – a testament to the engineers’ ingenuity.
Every detail inside the cab is carefully considered. The 270L super-large storage space, combined with 16 humanized storage designs, ensures that tools, documents, and personal items all have their proper places. Passenger-car-level features such as a reclining seat and a 49° steering wheel angle make long hours of driving no longer a chore. In particular, multiple mode options are provided for different driving scenarios – 3 drive modes, 3 brake modes, 3 steering modes, and 4 coasting modes – ensuring the vehicle performs optimally under any road condition.
In terms of safety performance, Qimingxing adopts a “shield-type body” structure derived from heavy trucks, with high-strength steel accounting for 51% and a 36% increase in body torsional stiffness. The vehicle has undergone over 900 scenario-based tests and more than 6 million kilometers of durability verification, including extreme environment tests such as 24-hour immersion in 0.8m-deep water, ensuring reliable performance under various complex working conditions. The three-electric system comes with an ultra-long warranty of 8 years or 800,000 kilometers, providing users with long-term peace of mind.
Driving Industry Transformation, Leading the New Future of Green Logistics
The launch of Qimingxing is more than just the arrival of a new product – it leads the development trend of the entire industry. Wang Shuhai, Deputy General Manager of Foton Motor, pointed out at the launch event that current light truck industry practitioners face dual pressures of rising operating costs and shrinking profit margins, while traditional “fuel-to-electric conversion” solutions can no longer meet practical needs. The birth of Qimingxing, based on a deep understanding of industry pain points, provides users with a genuine solution.
From an industry perspective, Qimingxing represents a new direction for the development of new energy commercial vehicles. Its brand-new platform architecture, advanced technical configuration, and humanized design concept will shift market competition from pure price wars to value competition. This is of great significance for improving the technical level of the entire industry and promoting the green transformation of the logistics industry.
Looking ahead, Foton Motor will continue to deepen its new energy strategic layout. As an important starting point of this strategy, Qimingxing not only demonstrates the technical strength of Chinese commercial vehicle enterprises but also reflects the transformation and upgrading from “Made in China” to “Created in China”, injecting new vitality into the development of global green logistics.
