IAMSA carries around 350 million passengers per year with 9 600 buses and coaches in 22 Mexican states. To help them with this task, the company has now ordered new 181 chassis from MAN Latin America. Of the new double-deckers order, 140 are based on the MAN RR4 26.480 three-axle chassis.
In Europe, the average amount of nitrogen oxides (NOx) present in exhaust emissions from modern diesel passenger cars is more than double the levels from modern trucks and buses, a new paper by the independent research organization International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows.
The difference is attributable in large part to differences in how light-duty and heavy-duty vehicle emissions are regulated, and the contrasting performance highlights the importance of an upcoming decision on strengthening the real-driving emissions (RDE) test for passenger cars in the EU.
Finnish bus company Helsingin Bussiliikenne Oy (HelB) will introduce 100% domestically produced biogas (biomethane/RNG) made from biodegradable waste to replace natural gas as a bus fuel for its operations in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area during 2017.
The ebuses will enter service in Haarlem city from September 2017. Each bus is expected to cover 85-90,000km a year, with huge savings of emissions of harmful exhaust gases when compared with diesel-powered vehicles (BYD ebuses emit no pollution at all). As well as being emission free the BYD ebuses are much cheaper to operate too thanks to the lower cost of electrical energy. The agreement signed today calls for the in-service support of the buses by BYD for a 10-year period.
The Jakarta city administration will purchase 489 Mercedes Benz buses and coaches to improve the services of the city-owned public transportation managed by PT Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta).