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…
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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…
The Chariot 18m ultracapacitor electric bus plied the routes in Slovenian capital Ljubljana for an experimental one-week period. Public transport operator LPP Ljubljana ran the trial and was satisfied with the results. The 18m articulated UC e-bus is the most efficient zero-emission city transport electric bus on the market. It recharges automatically in 10 to…
The European Commission proposes stricter CO2 emission targets for new heavy-duty vehicles from 2030. To hasten the rollout of zero-emission vehicles in cities, the Commission wants all new urban buses to be zero-emission from 2030. New heavy-duty commercial vehicles would have to emit 45 percent less from 2030, 65 percent less from 2035, and 90…