In the year of Covid-19, the West European battery electric bus market expanded 22 percent. Trolleybuses apart, 2062 new e-buses sold there in 2020. The 1685 sales in the same market made 2019 a notable record year, figures tripling on 2018. The market had taken 5087 e-buses since 2012. Nearly three quarters of them have…
Chariot Motors is now part of the Norwegian-Bulgarian Business Group. A non-profit organisation, the Group promotes members’ business interests and helps with knowledge, networking, and knowhow. As the name suggests, it works to strengthen Norwegian-Bulgarian business relations. Chariot Motors is looking for Norwegian partners in electromobility, public, and urban transport. See our company profile on…
Chariot Motors is a well-managed, publicly responsible company that cares for the environment. The company’s philosophy and business reflect this, while the renewed certification for these demanding international standards confirm it objectively and beyond doubt. Chariot Motors’ people take personal responsibility for quality delivery and maintenance of electric buses and take pains to stick to…
Chariot Motors has a long-term partnership with the Shanghai Aowei Technology Development Company and is its exclusive European representative. Aowei is world leader in ultracapacitor (UC) technology with proven track of implemented projects and we are proud to offer the European market its qualitative and innovative products. In 2014, the city of Sofia welcomed Chariot…
February sees Turin’s bus route 19 starts a four-month pilot of a SmartBUS UC e-bus. Local public transport operator GTT will run the trial. Joint-venture makers of the innovative fast-charging electric bus are Chariot Motors with its local Italian partner E-CO. The assembler of the bus is Higer Bus Company Limited. SmartBUS is the most…
A unique pre-commercial electric road technology proving project, Smartroad Gotland, will build knowledge for future electric roads. Electric roads will charge electric vehicles wirelessly as they travel along them. Backed and funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, Smartroad Gotland is led by ElectReon AB, Swedish subsidiary of Israel’s ElectReon Wireless. The project features a Chariot…
In 2021, Sofia will operate 45 ultracapacitor electric buses. Chariot Motors became a worldwide supplier of this innovative solution. Sofia’s air quality challenge Sofia is one of Europe’s most polluted cities. It constantly breaches WHO and EU air safety criteria, increasing the risk of heart disease, lung cancer, respiratory disease, and stroke. The main reason…
Chinese-Bulgarian consortium Chariot Motors Higer, whose Bulgarian partners are Chariot Motors, has won the City of Sofia bid to supply 30 low-floor fast charge electric buses. The bid was for leva 34.95 million against an earmarked leva 38.4 million. The European Union Operational Programme Environment provides the funds as financing a move to cut air…
Bulgaria’s capital Sofia will rank among European capitals with sustainable public transport. It gets its first electric buses with ultracapacitors. Route 123 is being stretched by six stops, three new electric buses serving it from 17 January. Metropolitan mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced the route will connect the Simeonovo cable car station to Slatina. Read more…
On 7 January 2020, Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandakova launched the new 123 bus route, served entirely by e-buses. A first for Bulgaria, the route enters operation on 17 January. By March, 15 new electric buses will arrive in Sofia from the Higer-Aowei consortium. They shall also serve routes 84 and 184, including the Sofia airport.…