This is what market research group IDTechEx from Boston predicts in their recent report Electric Buses 2018-2038. It covers hybrid and pure electric buses, often in many new forms. Most of the top 15 EV manufacturers in the world make, or will soon make buses, including Tesla.
A fleet of twenty of these new Ford Transit PHEVs will be on the road in London this year fot trials. Though well known in cars meanwhile, the plug-in hybrid technology hasn’t entered into the world of commercial vehicles just yet. Ford is hoping to change that with its new Transit PHEV.
The Chinese electric bus manufacturer BYD will be launching a lot of new developments at the coming Busworld exhibition. As a European premiere they will be unveiling the first ever bus BYD has built itself in Europe, at its new Hungary plant in Komarom.
The bus has a length of 12 meters. A real world premiere is the all new low floor European specification midibus.
This new addition augments the BYD range which already covers 10.2m, 10.8m and 12m single deckers, an 18m artic and double-deckers.
Electric motor manufacturer Motor UQM Technologies (NYSE MKT: UQM) has entered into a stock purchase agreement with China National Heavy Duty Truck Group (CNHTC) through its subsidiary Sinotruk.
Russia will supply electric bus components to Turkey, Turkish media recently reported. As a first result of this agreement, parts for the first electric bus built under the scope of this contract have meanwhile been shipped to Turkey.