Construction has begun on a new electric bus manufacturing plant in the Yozyovon district of Fergana province, a joint venture with China's Xiang Yang Tenglong Automobile and GIG Investments that marks Uzbekistan's first major step toward building electric buses domestically rather than importing them fully assembled.
The plant is being built on a 10-hectare site within a special industrial zone in the Ijodkor neighborhood. With a total investment of $170 million, the facility will have the capacity to produce 700 electric buses a year once fully operational, and is scheduled to come online in December 2027. Officials laid a foundation stone at the site to mark the start of construction.
In its first phase, the plant will manufacture electric buses; production of electric trucks is planned to follow later. Output is intended to supply the domestic market as well as export markets abroad. Local authorities said the project is expected to boost Fergana province's industrial base and generate new jobs.
A Chinese manufacturer with global reach
Xiang Yang Tenglong Automobile, based in Xiangyang in China's Hubei province, is a longtime maker of buses and coaches that has expanded into new-energy vehicles under the CCIG Corporation, offering pure electric buses, fuel-cell electric vehicles and other tailored electric bus solutions alongside its traditional diesel and natural-gas models. The company operates from a roughly 444,000-square-meter production base equipped with stamping, welding, painting and final-assembly workshops, and has built partnerships with transport operators in more than 80 countries since 2003.
Part of a broader electrification push
The Fergana plant is the latest step in Uzbekistan's effort to modernize its public transport fleet and cut emissions under the "Uzbekistan–2030" strategy. Until now, that effort has relied almost entirely on importing complete electric buses from China rather than manufacturing them locally.
In October 2025, Tashkent took delivery of 202 Yutong E12PRO electric buses, financed with support from the Export-Import Bank of China — bringing the cumulative number of Yutong electric buses in the capital to 534, along with 267 charging units. That delivery followed a February 2025 tender in which Yutong beat out fellow Chinese manufacturers BYD and Zhongtong to supply 200 electric buses and charging infrastructure for the city. Uzbek officials have said electric buses are meant to make up half of Tashkent's public transport fleet by 2030, with authorities aiming to put 1,200 new electric and modern buses into service by the end of 2026, including large-capacity 18-meter and 12-meter models.
Separately, Tashkent has also pursued a 2023 agreement with China's BYD for thousands of additional electric buses, part of a wider fleet-renewal drive that has added hundreds of new vehicles to the capital's streets each year.
The Fergana project represents a shift in that strategy — from buying finished vehicles abroad to building local manufacturing capacity that could eventually supply not only Uzbekistan's own cities but also export markets in the region.
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