[2] The company was founded in 1958 as Liaocheng Vehicle Manufacturing and Repair Factory, and began building buses in 1971.

The Zhongtong LCK6600BEV Series is an unlicensed clone of Toyota HiAce (H200) van, with similar body styles and overall vehicle dimensions, but only offered 3 trims in LCK6600BEV lineup.

Zhongtong also released as a higher roof long-wheelbase variant called LCK6600BEV6 and panel van LCK6600BEV5PV for commercial use.

Other electric vehicles such as Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe, Mitsubishi Outlander, Citroën Ami, Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Volkswagen ID.3 and Mazda MX-30, Zhongtong's hybrid van would not fight sales of electric vehicles because of having producing many vans and bring them to many customers.

The new Zhongtong Magnate's model code is LCK6128H and revised Elegance with blue strobe light on side window is LCK6118H.

[10] It is also custom made for TransJakarta, a Bus Rapid Transit system in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia.

[11] Zhongtong buses are also procured in large numbers by the Land Transport Authority as part of Contract PT601B in 2023.

A total of 120 low-floor electric single-deck production batch LCK6126EVG N12 buses were procured, registered as SG3401U onwards, and are to enter revenue service from 2025.

In Malaysia, Zhongtong N8 buses are used in Melaka's Stage Bus Service Transformation (SBST) programme in mid-2024.