Volvo Buses has secured its largest ever order of fully electric buses. Tide Buss has placed an order for 25 Volvo 7900 Electric buses for the city of Trondheim, Norway. Public transportation administration company AtB in Trondheim leads the way in the introduction of alternative propulsion technologies. In 2010 they were among the first in Europe to order hybrid buses from Volvo.
Van Hool, a Ballard partner in Europe, will be building eight ExquiCity tram-buses which will be energized using the aforementioned fuel cell engines during the second half of 2019.
The bus will be delivered by the Dutch electric vehicle manufacturer Ebusco. Recipient will be Multiobus, a recently formed bus company in the eastern part of the Belgian province of Flanders. This company previously bought an electric minibus. The new bus is a full-size vehicle with a length of 12 meters.
Volvo Buses has received an order for three electric hybrid buses from the German university city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. The new buses are of the Volvo Electric Hybrid type, they will become operational in the spring of 2018. The vehicles will become part of the fleet of Göttinger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (GÖVB).
Likinsky Bus Factory (LiAZ), part of the GAZ Group, has supplied 100 urban, low-floor LiAZ-5292 buses to Nizhny Novgorod. The buses have a lenth of12m and a carrying capacity of 108 people. The LiAZ-5292 buses are intended for routes with intensive passenger traffic.