Chariot Motors have begun development of a new 18m articulated fast charging ultracapacitor e-bus. The vehicle will have 108kWh UC (12 modules x 9 kWh each) located in the rear compartment and on the roof. Expected charge time will be 10 minutes, after which the e-bus will travel 40 km. Capacity is 130 seated and…
The city of Gabrovo put three new Chariot 40kWh ultracapacitor e-buses into operation. Route termini in Nedevtsi, Rusevtsi, and Palauzovo, have 350kW stations for five-to-seven-minute charges. Gabrovo’s first ultracapacitor e-buses should consume just 1.1kWh per kilometre. The routes officially launched on 10 March 2021. Chariot Motors’ representatives Milen Milev and Ilko Ivanov handed over symbolic…
In February a consortium of Serbia’s DAT Holding and Bulgaria’s Chariot Motors won a tender for ten solo, ultracapacitor electric buses to Serbian capital Belgrade public transport operator GSP. The consortium’s offer involved ten UC e-buses, four electric chargers, diagnostics tools, and staff training. The key criterion pursuant to which the company won the tender…
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…
