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Optare plc is winner of SMMT's 2012 Award for Automotive Innovation for electric bus

  • November 29, 2012

optare-solo-ev.jpgOptare plc has been crowned the winner of SMMT's 2012 Award for Automotive Innovation, for its Optare Versa EV – the UK's first fully operational, full-sized, battery-powered electric bus. 

Wirelessly charged electric buses in Milton Keynes

  • September 25, 2012

Electric-bus-Milton-Keynes.jpgWirelessly charged all-electric buses are to be introduced in Milton Keynes.

Funding for low carbon buses

  • April 6, 2011

Hybrid BusGovernment funding of over £46 million will see 542 new low carbon buses on roads across England by March 2012.

£15 million for greener buses

  • October 14, 2010

hybrid-bus-f.jpg£15 million of government funding has been announced for greener buses by Transport Minister Norman Baker.

Roush and Wrightbus work on Hybrid Technology

  • July 30, 2008

WrightbusHybrid buses are here, and the technology is being improved. The Wrightbus is powered by just a standard 2.4 litre diesel engine – as used in the Ford Transit – mated with a hybrid system.

News and articles on electric, hybrid and low carbon emission buses (LCEB).

The definition for low carbon emission bus is based on a methodology developed by theLowCVP:

"A Low Carbon Bus produces at least 30% fewer Greenhouse Gas Emissions than the average Euro 3 equivalent diesel bus of the same total passenger capacity. The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions will be expressed in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent measured over a standard test, and will cover "Well-to-Wheel" (WTW) performance, thereby taking into account both the production of the fuel and its consumption on board".

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