NORWAY: Public transport administration Brakan has ordered six 7900 Electric buses from Volvo to operate on the 12 km route 51 between Drammen and Mjöndalen.
Volvo is to deliver the buses in January 2019, and will maintain the vehicles and batteries.
Siemens has supplied opportunity charging stations for the termini. These use the OppCharge common interface, so they can be used by buses from other manufacturers. The chargers will be powered by renewable energy.
NORWAY: Government-owned national rail and bus operator Vy Buss signed an electric bus order with BYD at the Busworld trade show in Brussels on October 22. BYD is to supply a total of 55 buses that would operate in Oslo, Hamar and Haugesund municipalities. Deliveries are ...
NORWAY: December marked the start of a two-year electric bus pilot project in Oslo, involving three operators running a total of six electric buses. The total cost of the pilot is NKr43m. Nobina is operating two 18 m long articulated buses supplied by BYD on routes 31 and 31E, ...
NORWAY: Volvo has received what it says is its largest ever order for fully electric buses. It will supply 25 of its 7900 Electric battery buses to Tide Buss in Trondheim. The buses are due to enter service on four routes in in August 2019. Volvo will maintain the ...
