Pure electric bus to be trialled

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson made the announcement this week as he hosted representatives and bus manufacturers from around the world for the first ever global Clean Bus Summit.

“It’s essential because the air in your city isn’t clean enough”, London’s transport commissioner Peter Hendy told The Guardian.

The capital city will start the trial from October, with the zero-emission bus running between Cricklewood and Victoria Station on route 16.

Commuters in London will be able to ride on five of the buses from October as part of a trial to improve air quality and provide quieter journeys.

At a summit at City Hall today, 24 cities from around the world, including Johannesburg, Bogota, Rio de Janeiro, Warsaw and Madrid were committing to rolling out 40,000 ultra-low emission buses by 2020.

London’s first pure electric route will be the 312 single decker route between Norwood and South Croydon, he added.

Purely electric double-deck buses were not always a viable option due to the size of battery packs needed to power it. However, bus manufacturers have been working on ways to make the buses cheaper to buy and operate in bus fleet.

This fire-safe, completely recyclable and incredibly long-cycle technology has become the core of their clean energy platform that has expanded into automobiles, buses, trucks, utility vehicles and energy storage facilities.

The World Bank and Green Investment Bank have also signed up to this commitment. There will be 800 New Routemasters on London’s streets by 2016 and they will reduce Carbon dioxide emissions in the capital by around 27,500 tonnes a year.

London has reimagined its globally renowned double decker buses as a new line of electric powered vehicles in a city wide pilot.

LONDON, July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/-One of the world’s most recognized transportation systems, TFL (Transportation for London), known for their iconic red, double-decker buses, has contracted for the manufacture of a brand new, battery electric replacement.