Leveraging regional incentives and regulatory guidelines plays a considerable role in success in the electric bus market, and these companies are working that angle.
Keolis launches second 100% electric BRT line in France
Keolis has launched a second all-electric Bus Rapid Transit line on the French Basque Coast. The e-BRT is part of the Chronoplus transport network, linking Tarnos to Bayonne. The SMPBA (Syndicat des Mobilités Pays Basque Adour) operates the route.
The new line is ten kilometres long, has 24 stations and is served by seven electric Irizar articulated buses. For Kéolis, it is the second such venture since opening a zero-emission service between Bayonne and Biarritz in 2019. Now over 40% of the journeys on the Chronoplus network will be made on electric vehicles.
BYD delivers 246 electric buses to Keolis Nederland
BYD has begun delivery of Europe’s largest single order for electric buses to Keolis Nederland BV, the Dutch subsidiary of global public transport provider, Keolis.
An initial 246 BYD low-floor eBuses part of a total order for 259 vehicles are now with Keolis Nederland and entered service on 13 December on routes in Zwolle, Apeldoorn, Ede, Dedemsvaart, Vaassen, Harderwijk, and Deventer in the country’s IJssel-Vecht region. The remaining vehicles are scheduled for delivery and start of operation in Spring, 2021.
Keolis has calculated an annual CO
2 reduction of more than 15,755 tonnes from the electric buses.