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Equipmake electric bus heads to Buenos Aires for in-service trials without the need for a separate transmission – and a Semikron SKAIOverinverter.thelast 12 months, Equip make’s engineering team has put the new bus through an exten sive durability programme in and around Norfolk, with thousands of test miles completed on proving grounds, city centres and motor ways. Equipmake estimates the new electric Agrale MT17.0LE will have a range of up to 150 miles (240km). Charging will be carried out at a depot overnight via a CSS2 DC charging point. The electric Agrale, capable of carrying 70 passengers, will be operated over the next 12 months by DOTA, the largest bus opera tor in Buenos Aires. Following the successful completion of the trial, the objective is for mass manufacture to begin in Buenos Aires with Agrale and Todo Bus, using licensed Equipmake ZED technology.IanFoley, managing direc tor, Equipmake, says: “On behalf of everyone at Equipmake I am delighted that, following the completion of final test ing here in Norfolk, the Agrale MT17.0LE featuring our ZED system, now begins its journey to Buenos Aires for in-service trials. Through this innovative Advanced Propulsion Centrefunded project, we have worked closely with Agrale and Todo Bus along with other key partners, and the result is a state-of-the-art yet cost-effective bus. “We are now looking forward to the start of the trial and the potential for this new vehicle is huge. Buenos Aires has around 16,000 buses on its streets –roughly twice the size of Lon don’s fleet. There’s no doubt that electric buses can play a sig nificant role in helping Argen tina’s capital hit its 2050 net zero objective.”Equipmake’s ZED system is also used in the Jewel E doubledeck developed with Beulas which will soon begin in-service trials with Go-Ahead London.
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AN electric bus developed by Equipmake in the UK is to undergo in-service trials in Bue nos Aires. Developed as part of the Advanced Propulsion Cen tre-funded CELEB (Cost Effec tive Low Entry Bus) project – in which Equipmake has led mul tiple international partners over the last three years – the objec tive of the program has been to deliver a cost-effective bus designed for the South American market.Working with Brazilian bus manufacturer Agrale and Argentinian coachbuilder Todo Bus, Equipmake has developed an electric version of the Agrale MT17.0LE single-deck bus, installing its own Zero Emission Drivetrain.TheAgrale MT17.0LE project features a bespoke Equipmake ZED with a 318kWh lithium-ion battery, Equipmake’s own HTM 3500 electric motor – produc ing 3,500Nm torque at 1,000rpm and 400kW maximum power, integrated into the prop shaft
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BYD has been awarded an order for 15 electric buses from Empresa de Blas y Cia, a Span ish subsidiary of Arriva. The order comprises 12 buses at 12m length and three 13m, the latter being the first order for this eBus model in the Iberian market. Delivery of the eBuses is planned for 2023 and Arriva will operate them as part of a daily service in the city of Alcorcón, located to the southwest of Madrid.
BYD to supply 15 buses to Arriva
Arriva also runs intercity routes from Alcorcón and Mostoles to Madrid, for which the 13m eBuses will primarily be used.
Arriva’s Antonio Cendrero says: “We are committed to providing the highest level of service for customers. The purchase of these vehicles allows for us to quickly advance in our plan for zeroemission mobility, expanding the electric fleet equipped with the most cutting-edge technologies to support sustainability, safety, and efficiency.”Joaquín Bellido, BYD Iberia eBus sales director, adds: “This first ever order for 13-metre eBuses in Iberia underlines BYD’s achievement and expan sion in a growing market across Europe. We are committed to continuously expanding our electric bus fleet to help estab lish a zero-emission transport system in the region, and fur ther accelerate decarbonisation within the Iberian peninsula.”
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the existing electric buses we have in the fleet.”
It covered 353km during the two day period of extreme tempera tures and completed the service without untoward range depletion or excess energy consumption, according to EvoBus. For passengers, interior ambi ent temperatures remained largely unaffected by the heatwave – with an average interior temperature increase of 1.5 - 3°C versus that of typical climatic conditions. David Conway, service delivery director, Cardiff Bus, says: “The vehicle proved itself more than capable, both on the services we operate and in comparison with
TOTALLING just over 1,200km over the demonstration period, the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro had to cope with the heatwave in July.
Cardiff Bus trial of Mercedes-Benz eCitaro tackles heatwave
CARDIFF Bus, which already operates Yutong electric buses, has carried out a 12-day trial of the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro dem onstration vehicle. The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro, now equipped with the latest NMC2 batteries for increased range, entered the fleet to dem onstrate its capabilities on Cardiff’s busier routes linking surrounding communities to Wales’ capital city.
In addition to the demonstra tion, July 2022 also saw Cardiff Bus take delivery of an ex dem onstration Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid previously operated by EvoBus UK. Joining an already large fleet of Mercedes- Benz Citaro buses, the low emission certified hybrid model should deliver up to an 8.5 per cent fuel saving compared to a Euro VI diesel-powered Citaro and lower exhaust emissions.
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single application integrating information on mobility and pay ment methods using an M’ticket solution.From 2023, the new Pulséo performance bus lines will be launched with the deployment of 20 electric vehicles by the end of the contract.
Keolis wins contract for Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
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KEOLIS has been awarded a con tract by Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole for the operation and maintenance of transport and mobility services for an 8-year period with cumulative revenue anticipated of €295million. The contract includes a requirement to modernise information and launch four 100 per cent electric bus routes. Keolis says it is com mitted to increasing sales revenues by more than 30 per cent by 2030.
Keolis will take on the entire workforce from the previous oper ator and in line with the existing labour agreements. In the first year of the contract, Keolis intends to significantly improve the customer experience, with enhanced passenger infor mation, a new e-shop and a new
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Mark Taylor, regional sales manager, Alexander Dennis, adds: “We are delighted to show the benefits of electric buses on staff shuttle services with this project being the largest of its kind in the country. Our Britishbuilt BYD ADL Enviro200EV is a great fit and incorporates unrivalled experience from over 1,000 electric buses on the road nationally, ensuring reliability and peace of mind for Cobra as the operator, as well as Dawson group as owner and provider of the vehicles.”
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pus on 2nd August and another six will launch on 15 August at the Osterley Campus. The all-electric, zero-emission buses will replace conventional vehicles currently used for the shuttle bus service and will assist Sky in reducing its carbon foot print and achieving its goal of becoming net-zero by 2030.
Steve Dowling, director, Cobra Corporate Services, says: “After many months of research, discus sions and preparation to ensure the correct products were used, BYD ADL are the right choice of electric bus for us to integrate into the Sky Zero strategy. The decision to continue the relationship with Dawsongroup and our chosen infrastructure suppliers made all the hard work that much easier.”
BYD ADL electric buses for Sky shuttle services for staff and visitors
ALEXANDER Dennis and BYD are working with Dawsongroup bus and coach and Cobra Cor porate Services to provide zeroemission transportation services for broadcasting and telecommu nications group Sky. Sky provides its staff and visi tors with free shuttle bus services from various public transport hubs to its Livingston Campus near Edinburgh and its Osterley Campus in London. Cobra operates the shuttle bus service on behalf of Sky and eight BYD ADL Enviro200EVs are being supplied under contract hire through Dawsongroup. The first two buses have gone into service at the Livingston Cam
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Citaro hybrid approved for Low Emission Bus (LEB) certification
Citaro hybrid has been approved for Low Emission Bus (LEB) certi fication which means operators of the vehicle can attract up to a 6p/km LEB Service Operator’s The H2.City Gold is equipped with a Toyota fuel cell with a nominal power of 60kW, an LTO battery with a capacity of 44kWh from French supplier Forsee Power and a Siemens powertrain with a peak power of 180kW. Jordi Fortuny, EMT president, says: “The municipal company is preparing new tenders for hydro gen buses for the coming months. This is the beginning of a change to achieve the desired goal: zero emissions of CO2. We are putting all efforts to make more sustain Grant.EvoBus estimates that this could be a saving of £3,000 a year, based on an average of 50,000km per annum per vehicle. It adds that beyond government grants, the able mobility possible.”
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CAETANOBUS has signed a contract with municipal trans port company EMT Tarragona for the supply of three hydrogenpowered H2.City Gold buses. Caetano launched the vehicle in 2020 and now has more than 80 units already sold and in operation in various European cities. The vehicle is the result of a partnership between Toyota and Caetano, which was the first company in Europe to use the Japanese manufacturer’s fuel cell
Tarragona orders three Caetano H2.City Gold hydrogen buses
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www.caetanobus.pt Citaro hybrid already delivers up to an 8.5 per cent fuel consump tion saving compared to the Euro VI diesel-powered Citaro.
Nuno Lago de Carvalho, chief commercial officer, CaetanoBus, adds: “Spain is a key market for CaetanoBus and we are very glad to supply three more units of our H2.City Gold to Tarragona. Our company has been working on sustainable mobility solutions for the cities and it is a pleasure to ensure a better quality of life in another one. The H2.City Gold is a reliable and tested bus, that will make a difference in the fleet.”
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NCT £7m investment expands world’s largest fleet of bio-gas double decks solutions, adds: “We are delighted to have provided the chassis and powertrains underpinning the world’s largest fleet of bio-gas double deck buses.
The engines and chassis of the sleek Enviro400CBG City bio-gas buses have been developed by Sca nia and are bodied in Britain by Alexander Dennis. Mark Oliver, Scania UK sales director for bus, coach and power
“This project is a culmina tion of seven years hard work between NCT, ADL and Scania to get these buses on the road and the right infrastructure in place. At Scania, we are committed to help businesses decarbonise their operations, which is why we are proud to see this project come to fruition.” www.nctx.co.uk
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NOTTINGHAM City Trans port, which already operates the world’s largest fleet of bio-gas double decks in the world at 120 buses, has taken delivery of the first of 23 new bio-gas doubledeck buses as part of a £7million investment.Bio-gasbuses already run on three quarters of NCT’s doubledeck services and the current fleet has clocked up over 15 mil lion miles in service since first appearing in Nottingham five yearsNCTago.says it has halved its die sel consumption from 8 million litres to 4 million litres per year.
NCT head of engineering Liam O’Brien says: “NCT is committed to minimising its impact on the environment and we already oper ate one of the greenest bus fleets in the“Ourcountry.bio-gas fleet has contrib uted to much improved air quality in and around Nottingham and this investment in 23 further biogas buses will improve it further.”
“The brilliant “Tap & Cap” pilot will not only help reduce travel costs for people across Corn wall but will also help encourage greater use of more sustainable ways of transport, while helping create a truly integrated local bus network.”Richard Stevens, managing director, Go South West, adds: “As the county’s largest bus opera tor, operating over 100 routes and carrying 90,000 passengers per week – we’re proud to be part of the latest initiative to save custom ers money and encourage people new local production facility we aim to enhance our service to our existing French clients and gain further traction with new French mobility authorities.”
“France represents the largest bus fleet in Europe and is there fore a strategic market for the development of Ebusco. With this provided more than £23million to help look at ways to make local bus services more affordable.
Ministerial launch for capped bus ticket trial in Cornwall to switch from their cars to the bus - increasing the use of public transport. Together, as part of Transport for Cornwall we must continue to invest in change to make sure customers get the ser vice they deserve. www.gov.uk www.go-ahead.com
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The new Ebusco factory is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2023 and will have
Thomas Denis, CEO, Renault Cléon plant, adds: “The chal lenges linked to job creation, attractiveness, and low-carbon mobility in the Rouen-Nor mandy metropolitan area nat urally led us to agree to host Ebusco on our grounds. This expansion project in France of Ebusco is a great opportunity to promote Normandy and boost local industrial fabric”. www.ebusco.com
MINISTER for Buses Baroness Vere has launched a county-wide ‘Tap & Cap’ pilot scheme that aims to save money for bus cus tomers in Cornwall. The scheme implements a cap on daily and weekly fares. Passengers tap their card when they get on the bus, and tap again when they alight, and are charged the correct fare automatically. Regardless of the number of journeys taken in a day customers will not pay more than £5 and no more than £20 for a week.Baroness Vere says: “At a time when many people are feeling the pinch, every potential sav ing matters. That is why we have an initial capacity of 500 buses per year with the option to expand capacity in later years. The initial investment to equip the facility and convert it to Ebusco standards is expected to be €10million.
EBUSCO is to lease a new 21,000 sq m facility at the Renault Cléon site at Metropole Rouen to set up its French headquarters and production facility. The move is aimed to facilitate its future growth ambitions in France and south west Europe. The Clean site is being trans formed as part of a move towards 100 per cent electric vehicles and Ebusco will contribute through its experience of the electrifica tion of public transport and the integration of lightweight mate rials in its bus design.
Ebusco CEO Peter Bijvelds says: “After the establishment of a development team in France two years ago, the installation of a sec ond production site in Europe, as well as a new headquarters for our French subsidiary, is an important step for Ebusco in its development in France and Southern Europe.
Ebusco to locate French HQ and production facility at Renault Cléon site
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www.reading-buses.co.uk ket in Spain is expected to grow considerably in the coming years. We are looking forward to sup port AMB in their transition to sustainable transport.”
chief executive officer Robert Williams says the symbol would help to highlight the environmental benefits of travel ling by bus: “We are delighted to partner with the University of Reading to help highlight climate change. By covering a bus powered by biom ethane gas with the climate stripes we are able to offer an extremely low carbon reminder of the cli Peter Bijvelds, CEO, Ebusco, says: “We are very excited to expand our geographical presence with this very first order in Spain. Spain is one of the target markets in our international expansion strategy as the electric bus mar
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A Reading bio-methane powered single-deck bus has been re-liv eried with the ‘warming stripes’ motif which is being used around the world to provide a way of vis ually communicating rising tem peratures and the threat of global warming.Reading Buses has been work ing closely with the University of Reading whose Professor Ed Hawkins, a world-leading climate scientist, created the ‘warming EBUSCO has won an order from Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) in Spain for 21 Ebusco 2.2 12m buses plus charging systems, to be delivered in the second quarter of 2023 for use on metro politan bus services.
Reading highlights climate change message with Warming Stripes mate“Thisemergency.isalsoareminder to peo ple that using public transport is one of the easiest ways that they can help to cut emissions. We have even worked with our sup pliers to source a new recyclable vinyl to keep the carbon impact of this project as low as possible for as long as possible.”
Ebusco receives first order for the Spanish market
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Transport has key role in shaping sustainable suburbs, says UTG report
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TRANSPORT has a key role to play in shaping a new and sus tainable future for suburban life, argues a new report, ‘The Good Life: The role of transport in shaping a new and sustainable era for suburbs’ published by the Urban Transport Group. The report highlights that around 80 per cent of Britons live in suburbs, yet these areas are often neglected when it comes to transport planning, losing out to powerful voices in the city and the countryside. It argues that given that suburbs are where most of us live, there can be no decarbonisation of transport without specific meas ures to decarbonise transport in theThesuburbs.report presents four foun dations of suburbs for a new era: Help people to access more of what they need locally; Pro vide family-friendly sustainable transport choices; Prioritise gen tle densification around sustain able transport infrastructure; Provide reliable, convenient con nections to the nearest town or city and key employment sites In addition to the four foun dations, the report urges policy makers to join the dots between transport and the decarbonisa tion and adaptation of the sub urbs more widely, including using community microgrids to power homes and transport, and the integration of blue and green assets, like rain gardens and green roofs, into transport infrastructure.Thereportstates: “We are a nation of suburbanites. However, the ubiquity of suburban living is often not reflected in trans port policy. We frequently fail to fully engage with, or even men tion, suburban transport patterns and needs. Instead, cities, and to a lesser extent, rural communi ties tend to monopolise the policy landscape.”RebeccaFuller, assistant direc tor, Urban Transport Group, and author of the report, says: “The pandemic has forced us to move away from the idea that suburban transport is mostly about moving commuters in and out of town and city centres. The suburbs feature many more journey types, made by a diverse group of people, and these journeys now need to be made more sustainably in the face of the climate crisis.
“Far more attention needs to be made to suburban transport planning now than it has in the past. This report sets out the transport foundations for a new era for suburbs, and whilst it pre sents some potential solutions, it also aims to trigger wider debate about the role transport can play and the specific transport solu tions that will help suburbs to thrive in a sustainable and equi tableTheway.”Good Life: The role of transport in shaping a new and sustainable era for suburbs – can be downloaded here.
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DANFOSS Power Solutions’ Editron division has supplied fully electric drivetrains to Chung-Shin Bus Group, Tai wan’s national bus operator. Chung-Shin Bus Group is devel oping its own electric buses to help the Taiwanese government achieve net-zero targets. Taiwan has set several trans portation-related climate goals as it aims for net-zero by 2050. The government is pushing for its entire fleet of 16,000 buses to be fully electric by 2030, offer ing subsidies for bus operators to help meet this Chung-Shingoal.Bus Group will bring 150 fully electric buses fea turing Danfoss’ Editron technol ogy into service in Taipei and New Taipei City by the end of 2022. Each bus includes a PMI318B electric drivetrain featuring one motor, an inverter and a six-speed transmission.Danfosssays its compact and lightweight Editron drivetrains offer 30 per cent increased effi ciency and reduce operational costs by the same figure compared to traditional diesel-powered buses.Afurther 100 Chung-Shin Bus Group buses featuring drivetrains manufactured by Danfoss’ Editron division are expected to enter service in Christophe2023.Natter, vice presi dent, OEM sales, Danfoss Power Solutions, says: “With high torque performance, wide opera tion range and integrated gear box, our on-highway drivetrain is perfectly suited for bus appli cations. Chung-Shin Bus Group received solid references for our solution from our other cus tomers worldwide, giving them confidence that we are the right partner to join them on their electrification journey.”
Danfoss technology aiding Taiwan’s transition to a fully electric bus fleet
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SWITCHING car journeys to bus and coach is essential to achiev ing the UK’s net zero emissions goal, according to a new report from the Confederation of Pas senger Transport. The UK’s net zero commit ments require a decarbonisa tion of the transport sector, the highest emitting sector and the only one whose emissions have increased since 1990. CPT says this requires ambitious action to tackle car greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which account for the majority of surface transport emissions.TheDecarbonisation Dividend report, created alongside WPI Economics, found that if every person in Great Britain switched just over one car trip to bus or coach per month each year (13 per year) by 2030, it would create a cumulative reduction of 2 mil lion tons of CO2e. What’s more, a shift of just over two trips per month (26 per year) journeys by 2050 would result in a cumulative reduction of 19.5 million tons of CO2e.The findings of the report also identified health and societal benefits that could be reaped in years to come due to this shift. Such benefits include cumulative reductions in congestion valued at £29.4billion and cumulative health benefits worth £14.9billion – enough to build 33 new NHS hospitals.Commenting on the report, Graham Vidler, CPT chief execu tive, says: “Without shifting demand from cars to buses and coaches, the UK will fall short of its net zero ambitions. “The report shows that small changes in the way we travel can create a big difference. To unlock these benefits, each of us needs to switch just one journey per month from car to bus by the end of this decade, two journeys per month by 2050. That’s it.”
Shifting journeys from car to bus and coach once a month could save millions of tons of CO2e emissions, says CPT
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Additional consumer-focused research conducted by CPT iden tified’ attitudes toward bus and coach travel. Almost half of car drivers interviewed (46%) have considered taking the bus more compared to this time last year, with half of those (49%) doing so to be Vidlergreener.adds: “Our findings show that around half of Brits want to have a more balanced mix between using their car and taking the bus or a coach. With many parts of the country set to invest in speeding up journey times there’s a great opportunity for people to start shifting some of their journeys.”
