THE WORLD’s first 24-metre fully electric ‘bendy bus’ will now go into operation in Nantes, France – the first time such a long bus will run completely on battery energy, it’s reported recently.
Swiss company ABB, using Trolleybus Optimisation Système Alimentation (TOSA) flash charging technology, has been in operation in Geneva, Switzerland, for more than a year and will now equip the first 24-metre fully electric bus in Nantes, France.
In little more than a year, Geneva has turned greener thanks to the ABB flash-charging eBus solution, the company states.
Electric buses equipped with this solution have covered a record 500,000 kilometres, transporting millions of passengers and reducing carbon emissions by about 1,000 tonnes, it claims.
A technological breakthrough developed for sustainable mass transportation, TOSA claims it has the world’s…