Founded on August 28th, 1996, Foton Motor is headquartered in Beijing, China. With a business scope covering a full series of commercial vehicles including medium and heavy-duty truck, light-duty truck, mini truck, van, pickup, bus, special vehicles and new energy vehicles.

Focusing on commercial vehicle filed since it’s born, FOTON has accumulatively sold over 11 million vehicles, became the world's shortest commercial vehicle company to break the 10 million mark. FOTON has exported a total of 795,000 vehicles overseas, ranking the leading position in China's commercial vehicle exports for 12 consecutive years. FOTON has established the joint venture of Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Co., Ltd.(BFCEC) with Cummins in 2008, Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co., Ltd.(BFDA) with Daimler AG in 2012 and Foton ZF in 2017, aiming to make breakthroughs in science and technology, and produce energy-saving, environmentally friendly and intelligently interconnected automobile products.

As a "dual independent" (independent technology and independent brand) Chinese commercial vehicle company, FOTON has vigorously developed new energy for commercial vehicles, and masters the core technology of batteries, motors and electronic control systems, and realizes the development of multi-technologies simultaneously such as pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel. At present, FOTON EVs have expanded to the full range of commercial vehicle products. FOTON has become the largest new energy bus fleet in Latin America, and the operating routes in India, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt and other global markets have covered core operating scenarios such as bus systems, school fleets and airport. In addition, FOTON EV light duty truck and VAN products have entered the European markets such as Italy, Germany and Malta, driving global electro mobility with zero carbon emissions and fossil-free.