Chariot electric bus and an electric heave duty truck are wirelessly charged from ElectReon’s electric road on the Swedish island of Gotland. ElectReon implanted 1.2-metre-long coils fist-deep into a 4.1km road linking Visby airport and town center on Gotland Island. The project then equipped a Chariot electric bus with three underfloor receivers picking up charge…
The city of Barcelona has opened its first all-electric high-capacity mass transport route with 23+,18m articulated e-buses. The city recently also put into operation 46 light hybrid buses. Earlier this year Barcelona public transport authority TMB opened a tender for 210 green buses. Of them, 78 will be electric: 29 articulated ones with pantographs for…
Public transport in Qatar is to go all-electric by 2030. The rollover will include public bus routes, state school buses and local Metro transport system buses in the capital Doha. The US-Qatar Business Council, which encourages US-Qatar trade, announced the transition. Initial plans will see a quarter of Qatar’s public transport going electric by the…
This summer 30 brand new Chariot-Higer electric buses will ply the streets of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. Operated by Stolichen Elektrotransport, they will replace diesel buses in the city. Alongside the 15 e-buses already delivered by Chariot to Sofia, the new e-buses will further improve the city’s air quality. They produce no NOx, CO2, or particulate…
The UK should have most electric buses in Europe by 2024, their number growing some 180 percent from 1000 to 2800, states global independent advisory firm Accuracy. Poland currently has Europe’s second-largest zero emission (ZE) bus fleet with 800 vehicles. The Netherlands and Italy follow in third and fourth place with 600 each. Germany comes…