In March 2024, Hubei Shengda Automobile completed the delivery of 40 multi - functional agricultural product transport vehicles to Xiangyang Agricultural Products Distribution Center. This cooperation is aimed at solving the problems of high loss rate and poor timeliness in the transportation of fresh agricultural products in Xiangyang and its surrounding rural areas.
Xiangyang is a major agricultural city, with a large variety of agricultural products such as vegetables, fruits and aquatic products. However, due to the imperfect rural transportation network and the lack of professional transport vehicles, the loss rate of agricultural products during transportation has been as high as 15% - 20%, which seriously affects the income of farmers and the development of the agricultural product market. The traditional transport vehicles used by the distribution center have simple structures, no special fresh - keeping facilities, and poor shock resistance, which can not meet the transportation needs of high - value agricultural products such as strawberries and live fish.

The multi - functional agricultural product transport vehicles developed by Hubei Shengda Automobile for the distribution center have many innovative designs. Firstly, the vehicle is equipped with a dual - zone temperature control system, which can set different temperatures for the front and rear compartments. For example, it can keep 2 - 4°C in the front compartment for transporting vegetables and 5 - 8°C in the rear compartment for transporting fruits, effectively reducing the respiration of agricultural products and extending their fresh - keeping period. Secondly, the compartment is made of lightweight and high - strength composite materials, which reduces the weight of the vehicle by 15% compared with traditional steel compartments, while improving the load - bearing capacity. The inner wall of the compartment is covered with a special anti - collision buffer layer, which can reduce the vibration amplitude by more than 50% during transportation, and is especially suitable for transporting fragile agricultural products such as eggs and glass - bottled agricultural by - products.
In addition, the vehicle is also equipped with a real - time monitoring system for agricultural products. Sensors installed in the compartment can monitor parameters such as temperature, humidity and ethylene concentration in real time, and transmit the data to the distribution center's management platform through the Internet of Things technology. Once the parameters exceed the set range, the platform will send an alarm to the driver and the management personnel, so that they can take measures in time. The vehicle is also equipped with a foldable loading and unloading platform, which can be connected with the storage facilities in the rural areas, reducing the labor intensity of loading and unloading and improving the efficiency.