ELECTRIC BUSES * WORLDWIDE
* Colombia - BYD delivering electric buses to Bogota
(Picture: BYD K9 model bus) Bogota,Colombia -Busworld (Belgium) -17 April 2013: -- BYD Company Ltd. of China and Express del Futuro of Bogota, Colombia unveiled plans for an electric bus fleet in Bogota, Colombia. BYD’s K9 all electric buses will be in service in the Columbian capital by the second quarter of 2013, according to a statement from the two companies... Express, which pioneered the TransMilenio transportation system in Bogota, will be the first to test zero-emissions, all-electric buses in fleet service in South America...
* The Netherlands - Launch all-electric bus service
Schiermonnikoog,Friesland,Netherlands,Holland -Busworld (Belgium) -27 April 2013: -- The Chinese battery-electric bus manufacturer BYD officially delivered 6 electric buses today in a ceremony at the island home of city of Schiermonnikoog, and the Netherlands’ first National Park in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. The six vehicles will be operated by Arriva and were awarded last June 2012 in Europe’s first publically tendered order for electric-powered full size buses and are planned to provide visitors and residents with an environmentally-friendly public transport system for the next 15 years...BYD’s unique Electric Bus model is a full-size, 12-meter transit bus powered entirely by the company’s advanced Iron Phosphate batteries...
* Austria - Vienna to switch two buslines fully to electric service
Vienna,Austria -Busworld (Belgium) -25 April 2013: -- A couple of months ago a first electric bus (eBus) for the Austrian capital city of Vienna, supplied by Siemens and the Italian bus manufacturer Rampini, has been brought into service by “Wiener Linien”, the municipal public transit company. This vehicle was the first of twelve with which the Vienna public transportation company intends to switch two of the city’s bus services completely to electric power by the summer of 2013... The entire energy requirement is stored in the onboard battery system. The batteries also supply the heating and air-conditioning systems. The main advantages over diesel and gas-powered buses lie in the energy demand, which is around 25 percent less, lower maintenance costs, and completely emissionsfree operation... The batteries can be recharged within 15 minutes, and provide a range of between 120 to 150 kilometers. The energy regained from braking is regenerated through the three-phase motors, and fed back into the lithium ferrite batteries. At night, the batteries are recharged slowly with 15 kilowatts in the bus depot...
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