The dual door variant of the zero emission Enviro200EV has 27 seats and capacity for more than 75 passengers
This afternoon.
Sabrina D’Angelo writes:
The National Transport Authority (NTA) and Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) have today signed a framework agreement for the delivery of up to 200 zero emission battery-electric buses. An initial order for 45 buses commencing delivery in 2022 was also agreed.
The framework agreement will run for up to five years and covers the delivery of single deck long length battery-electric buses. The first 45 buses are expected to operate services in Athlone and the Dublin Metropolitan Area.
The Enviro200EV is a product of the partnership between ADL and BYD Company Limited, whereby the latter supplies the chassis of the bus (including the traction battery pack and powertrain), for completion by the former.
Meanwhile…
So the NTA thinks it's doing a great job buying 200 electric buses but at the same time spends over €500k a piece on 55 of these diesiel guzzling monsters which run at about 6mpg in the city…..🙄 pic.twitter.com/O0bcD55wzb
— Padzer Murphy🪂 (@PadZer_eire) July 19, 2021
FIGHT!
Good to see, its about time. Theres no reason we should still have diesel buses (or taxis for that matter…) on the road in our major cities spewing out health damaging pollution. Plenty of other cities around the world have gone fully electric with their bus fleets already, the technology is proven and ready.
Woo hoo! now i wonder where they’re charge them… hope the grid capacity in athlone is good
we have an electric, jaysus the hoo-ha off some of the neighbors about charging it, didn’t see that coming
hoo-ha??
Jealousy?
Do explain :)
sneaky calls to the council … deliberately parking in the charge spot, one old bint told me I’d set the place on fire…sigh
Didn’t ever get that with mine. Have my own charging point though. It does annoy me that some dcc parking spots with charging points can be used by non electric vehicles. The one on the corner of Gratham and Synge streets was always ‘ice’d’ when I’d be in that neck of the woods.
20% of microplastics in our Oceans are vehicle tyre particles, so to call these 0% emissions is very misleading.
I suspect that, emissions aside, the environmental impact of the construction and maintenance of electric buses is the same as petrol or diesel buses. The solution to this, of course, is more electric buses, but a lot less cars.
Is it not better for the environment to keep the diesel bangers going until they cant anymore?
Sick of this narrative about electric vehicles. The battery production is really bad for the environment, and like it or not they all run to some degree on fossil fuels….
Ireland has approx 1300 premature deaths due to air pollution every year. We need to do everything possible to reduce local air pollution to bring this number down. Getting rid of diesel vehicles in our cities is a very easy way to make a big dent in this.
Athlone?