BYD Double Deck Electric Bus
When most other bus
manufacturers were counting the sale of full electric buses in tens and
hundreds, it was BYD, the largest electric bus maker in the world with over
thousand units running on roads, that seemed to have the last laugh.
BYD buses
are tested or given for trail run in more than 160 global cities including,
Salzburg, Warsaw, Brussels, Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, Bogota, and of
course Bengaluru. Each city received BYD electric buses with their own
programme, and that means huge database for fine-tuning the operation system
and hardware.
In July 2015, BYD and
Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) formed a new alliance that will see the
introduction of London’s first large-scale, zero-emission, single deck bus
fleet – 51 units of 12 m single deck e-buses. This will also be the single
largest fleet of full size electric buses in Europe.
At Busworld, BYD launched
high capacity e-buses – a 10.8 m double decker, 18 m vestibule bus and a 8 m midi
bus. The double decker is made for London transport, which has the world’s
largest fleet of double deckers of more than 2,000 units.
