Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova and Deputy Mayor Doncho Barbalov inspected 22 new Chariot Motors battery electric buses today. Metropolitan operator Stolichen Avtotransport will put ten of them into operation Monday 3 April. Plying routes 23, 82, 100 and 101, they will feed the metropolis’ other electric transport modes: the metro and trams. All 22 should…
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Global Mass Transit has released the third edition of the Europe Bus Market Report. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of the bus market in Europe, future plans to procure buses and deploy infrastructure, and forecast of bus demand in 30 countries in Europe. The key highlights of the report are: that more than 500,000 buses…
Four new Chariot Motors low-floor ultracapacitor electric buses arrived in Sofia today. Local public transport operator Stolichen Elektrotransport shall put them into use along route 73, due to extend to the Mladost Edno residential estate. Sofia Mayor Mrs Yordanka Fandakova wrote in Facebook, “In 2021, we managed to obtain 30 electric buses secured by funds…
The project involves laying an Electric Road System (ERS) and static charging stations along a functioning bus route with stops. The first phase will be 400 metres long and have two charging stations. The second extends this to 1000 metres. Electreon, leading provider of wireless and in-road electric vehicle chargers, will provide static and dynamic…
An influential report forecasts that the world electric bus market should grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.9 percent a year until 2030. The report analyses each bus market segment to 2030, with 2021 as the base year. Electric traction has now proven itself as a solution to curbing the enormous pollution…