BUSMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* UK - Volvo Trucks (and buses) built at Irvine
(Video from YouTube, by epmallon —February 28, 2008: Volvo truck and bus plant in Irvine Scotland closed its doors in june 2000. Although it was a profit making plant they decided to close it and move production to Poland...)
Irvine,Scotland,UK -BigLorryBlog (UK), by 'Two-Stroke' -March 25, 2010: -- I am grateful to 'Two-Stroke' for tipping Biglorryblog off to the fact that this excellent 10-minute film on the sadly no-more Irvine truck and bus plant in Scotland is on YouTube. The plant ultimately closed in 2000 after Volvo decided to shift much of the bus production to a new plant in Poland which I have a feeling doesn't exist now. Thus the world of commercial vehicle globalisation... In addition to building regular FL, and F truck models the guys in the plant were experts at 'specials' like the narrow-cab CH range for Switzerland as well as military models like the Highlander... Meanwhile I'm grateful to whoever posted this up on YouTube as it provided some fond memories for me of the plant and the people who worked there and made it the legend it still is... (TWN's Note: ... And we agree...)
* USA - Daimler Buses North America Hands Over Last Hybrid Bus - Order for New York City Transit
New York,NY,USA -Mercedes Benz Passion eBlog, by Philipp Deppe -25 March 2010: -- Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) has delivered the last batch of buses to New York City Transit (NYCT) from an order for a total of 1,350 Orion diesel-electric hybrid transit buses... The company currently operates a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses, of which 1,675 are Orion VII diesel-electric hybrids from DBNA. This gives NYCT the world’s largest fleet of hybrid vehicles for local public transportation... Orion began developing and producing hybrid buses in the mid-1990s and formed a partnership with NYCT to help test the buses during their development phase. DBNA then delivered its first Orion diesel-electric hybrid bus to New York City in 1998. Although the Orion hybrid bus is used all across North America... * Germany - Mercedes CapaCity bus
Sttugart,Germany -NZ in Transit -25 March 2010: -- Light rail holds top glamour space in the public mind, but bus technology is moving rapidly ahead as well. A fleet of these beautiful buses carry over 530,000 passengers a day on the Istanbul Bus Rapid Transit corridor. The rear section wheels steer in concert with the front steering, and vehicle has computerized stabilizers. When Mercedes showcased these in Germany they deliberately chose cities that had tight, winding, narrow streets to demonstrate the ease of cornering and working heavy traffic. With four axles to spread the load each bus can carry up to 193 passengers, as with trams in situations where a large proportion of passengers are standing is the norm... (Photo from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: Capacity kaiserslautern)* China - Opening Bus Assembly Plant in Cameroon
Yaoundé,Cameroon -VOA News, by Scott Stearns (from Dakar,Senegal) -25 March 2010: -- China is opening a factory in Cameroon to manufacturer buses... The $500 million factory in Douala is expected to start producing buses by the end of the year. Joining private investors from China and Cameroon, government officials say it will create hundreds of new jobs, ease transport, and boost Cameroon's economic growth as a source of vehicles for West and Central Africa... The agreement also calls for the delivery of 500 Chinese buses in July for use between and within Cameroonian cities... (Photo:China's Zhongtong Bus LCK6103H)* Turkey -MAN reduces its truck and bus targets - Crisis hits the truck sector most
Ankara,Turkey -Anatolia News Agency/Hurriyet Daily News -April 4, 2010: -- The global crisis is affecting the bus sector with a delay in orders, according to a top executive of MAN Kamyon and Otobüs, the Turkish subsidiary of German MAN Nutzfahrzeuge. The company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles and supplies trucks, buses and diesel engines... MAN Kamyon and Otobüs reaped 272 million euros in turnover last year by selling 1,576 buses, said Tuncay Bekiroğlu, chief executive responsible for sales at MAN Kamyon and Otobüs. The company aims to sell 1,000 buses and reach a total of 165 million euros in turnover this year due to the impacts of the economic crisis, Bekiroğlu added... MAN produced 102,000 vehicles worldwide in 2008, but this figure dropped to 40,000 last year with the economic crisis. But this decline was seen in all companies in the truck and bus industry, said Bekiroğlu... Last year, the company exported vehicles to 41 countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and France, Yavuz said... (FIGURES: MAN produced 102,000 vehicles worldwide in 2008. But this figure dropped to 40,000 last year with the economic crisis)Labels: busmakers green news
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