The Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB has ordered is first seven fully electric buses. They will be built by the Polish busmanufacturer Solaris. The buses ordered are of the midibus type. By the end of next year the buses will be running on the cityline, the connection between uptown and downtown Brussels.
L.A. Metro, Southern California’s biggest transit agency, retired its last diesel bus six years ago. Now, the transportation leaders are working toward a bolder goal: buses that don’t pollute at all. It should lead to an emissionfree fleet by 2030, a move that will require buying more than 2,300 buses that run on electric batteries or another form of zero-emission power, such as hydrogen.
Turkish company Karsan, an independent, multi-branded vehicle manufacturer, has displayed a 42-foot compressed natural gas-fueled transit bus at the UTIP Global Transport Summit in Montreal mid May – and says it wants to build the “Sunshine” model in the U.S. to meet federal “Buy America” funding requirements.
Continental sees self-driving taxis as an obvious application for autonomous vehicles, particularly in cities such as Berlin, where the company says the average daily distance traveled by car is 20.2 km (12.5 mi) spread across three trips a day.
An additional order from Go-Ahead London for delivery of another number of electric buses constructed by the Alexander Dennis (ADL) and BYD partnership brings the total order for these buses to 95.