In recent years, Ankai bus has been fruitful in the field of intellectual property, not only ranked among the top 100 invention patents in Anhui Province for two consecutive years, but also won the honor of "National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise" in 2022, which fully demonstrates the excellent innovation ability and comprehensive strength of the enterprise.

Ankai bus has 1179 valid patents by the end of 2022, including 342 invention patents. As a national high-tech enterprise and a national innovative pilot enterprise, the company actively promotes the transformation of innovation achievements, accelerates the improvement of innovation and development capacity in the bus field, continues to increase the construction and R&D investment in intelligence, electrification and networking, continues to promote product iteration and upgrading, and strengthens the foundation of high-quality development of the enterprise.

Innovation is the core competitiveness of the enterprise, Ankai bus has three national R&D platforms, including National Enterprise Technology Center, National Engineering Technology Research Center for Electric Bus System Integration and National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Electric Bus System Development and Application, as well as several key R&D platforms, such as national postdoctoral research stations and nationally recognized vehicle performance laboratories, and has cooperated with many universities at home and abroad, such as University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University. The company also cooperates with many universities and research institutes at home and abroad, such as the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University, to carry out in-depth cooperation between industry, academia and research. At present, Ankai bus has undertaken more than 50 national and provincial key scientific research projects and hosted and participated in the formulation of more than 30 national industry standards.

Among them, in the field of new energy, Ankai bus has applied for 519 new energy patents in electric bus heat dissipation, program enhancement technology, energy management, vehicle control system, data acquisition, power battery, drive motor, etc. In 2022, the newly developed third-generation L4 level self-driving bus was officially launched in the baohe district of Hefei City for road testing, and the vehicle adopts the latest frontier technologies such as intelligent network connection and vehicle-road coordination. It can realize highly automatic driving.

In the future, Ankai bus will continue to adhere to the innovation-driven development strategy, promote the high-quality development of the enterprise with technological innovation and technological empowerment, and contribute to Ankai's strength to accelerate the building of trillion-level intelligent networked and new energy vehicle industry cluster in Anhui Province.