Electric buses (electric buses)

2024

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin allocated billions of rubles to launch electric buses in the regions

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to redistribute more than 4.8 billion rubles for the development of urban electric transport, including electric buses. According to the document of June 12, 2024 No. 1482-r, the funds are aimed at continuing and completing projects for the construction of tram lines and the launch of electric buses in various regions of the country.

The document says that almost 1 billion rubles will be allocated to the Rostov region for the modernization and construction of the infrastructure of tram routes, including tracks, traction substations and electric depot. The Nizhny Novgorod region will receive about 700 million rubles to complete the project to acquire 30 electric buses in 2024. This will significantly improve the quality of transport service in these regions.

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In addition to the Rostov and Nizhny Novgorod regions, the program involves Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Perm Territories, as well as Volgograd, Kursk, Lipetsk, Saratov and Yaroslavl regions. These regions are provided for the distribution of significant amounts: the Krasnodar Territory will be allocated 4.2 billion rubles, the Krasnoyarsk Territory - 5.7 billion rubles, the Perm Territory - 1.35 billion rubles, the Volgograd region - 3.19 billion rubles, the Kursk region - 1.98 billion rubles, the Lipetsk region - 1.41 billion rubles, the Saratov region - 2.22 billion rubles, the Yaroslavl region - 2.21 billion rubles.

The program to subsidize the development of urban electric transport plays a key role in the modernization of the country's transport system, the document says. It emphasizes the importance of continuing the projects launched and the need to provide residents of the regions with modern and environmentally friendly transport.

According to the government, the redistribution of budget funds will allow not only to complete current projects, but also to launch new ones, which will significantly increase the quality of transport service in a number of regions of Russia.^[1]

The first Russian power modules for charging electric buses have been released

In early April 2024, Rostec announced fully domestic power modules for electric charging stations (EZS). The development called UESM-30 has no analogues in the Russian market, the state corporation claims. Read more here.

Vologda plant "Trans-alpha" began to produce electric buses and received a contract for 1 billion rubles

In mid-March 2024, the Vologda Trans-Alpha plant began producing Sirius electric buses. The first batch will be delivered to St. Petersburg. Read more here.

Petersburg received electric buses that do not need to be charged during the day

Petersburg received electric buses that do not need to be charged during the day. The press service of KamAZ (vehicle supplier) announced this in early March 2024. Read more here.

Sitronics Electro provided the charging infrastructure with the launch of electric bus traffic in Taganrog

In Taganrog, the first electric bus entered the route. As part of the state program, 10 units of environmentally friendly transport were purchased for the city and ultra-fast charging stations were installed. The project for their construction was implemented by the operator of the electric charging infrastructure for transport Sitronics Electro (part of the Sitronics Group). Sitronics announced this on February 15, 2024. Read more here.

Sitronics Electro provided the launch of electric buses in Volgodonsk with charging infrastructure

The Russian operator EZS Sitronics Electro, part of the Sitronics Group, built four charging stations as part of a federal subsidy to ensure the launch of innovative public transport by electric traction. Sitronics announced this on February 1, 2024. Read more here.

Batteries reducing the mass of electric buses by 400 kg have been developed in Russia

In mid-January 2024, the Russian company Autonomous Energy Systems presented Zeta lithium-ion batteries designed for public electric transport. These batteries are said to outperform most foreign-made samples in their class. Read more here.

Sitronics Group has built a charging infrastructure for electric bus parks in Rostov-on-Don

As part of the state program, the Russian operator of the electric charging infrastructure, part of the Sitronics Group, built ultra-fast charging stations. Representatives of Sitronics Group announced this on January 17, 2024.

In Rostov-on-Don, 10 out of 20 electric buses purchased for the city as part of a subsidy from the federal budget under the state program for the integrated development of urban electric public transport were issued on two regular routes. As part of it, a charging infrastructure was built for electric bus parks. Read more here.

2023

Sitronics Electro built ultra-fast charging stations in the Saltykovka electric bus park in Moscow

Sitronics Electro (part Sitronics of the Group) in the framework of the agreement with the Group "" Rosseti took part in the project constructions of electric charging infrastructure for the fleet of electric buses Moscow in the Novokosino area. The company also carried out the development integration software and necessary for dispatching the charging infrastructure. Sitronics announced this on January 24, 2024. Read more here.

Allocated 2 billion rubles for the construction of an electric bus plant in the Pskov region

At the end of December 2023, the expert council of the Moglino Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the Pskov Region approved a project for the construction of a plant for the production of electric buses. More than 2 billion rubles will be invested in the enterprise. Read more here.

Sitronics Electro built a charging infrastructure for electric buses in Volgograd

Electric buses in Volgograd are charged at the ultra-fast stations of the Sitronics Electro operator. Sitronics announced this on December 15, 2023. Read more here.

Electric buses began to run in Taganrog

On December 14, 2023, KamAZ announced the supply of the first batch of electric buses to Taganrog. It included 10 KamAZ-6282 vehicles. Read more here.

Murom Machine-Building Plant received 1.75 billion rubles from FRP to launch the production of components for electric buses

The Industrial Development Fund (FRP) provided a preferential loan in the amount of 1.75 billion rubles to the Murom Machine-Building Plant to launch the production of components for electric buses. This became known on December 11, 2023. Read more here.

Petersburg "Passazhiravtotrans" buys 40 electric buses for 4.2 billion rubles

In early November 2023, St. Petersburg Passazhiravtotrans announced a tender for the purchase of 40 electric buses in the amount of 4.2 billion rubles. We are talking about the supply of so-called "accordions" - two-section vehicles. Read more here.

Electric buses began to run in Volgograd. 1 billion rubles spent on them

In October 2023, the first electric buses were delivered to the Volgograd Region. The starting batch of vehicles manufactured by KamAZ includes 21 vehicles. Read more here.

A contract was signed for the construction of a fleet of electric buses in St. Petersburg for 11.4 billion rubles

In August 2023, the St. Petersburg authorities identified a contractor who will build a fleet for electric buses in the Rzhevka industrial zone in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city. The contract for more than 11.38 billion rubles was received by the Geoisol group of companies. Read more here.

Chinese companies plan to invest in a new production of electric buses in the Irkutsk region

In January 2023, it became known that two Chinese companies are investing in a new production of electric buses in Russia. The plant will appear in the Irkutsk region, the regional authorities are already looking for a land plot for its construction.

On the part of the PRC, the Chongqing representative office of CRRC and Chongqing Mammoth Brand - Management will participate in the joint venture. The implementation period is until 2025. In the Russian Federation, electric buses are produced by KamAZ, GAZ Group and Volgabas.

2022

The number of electric buses commissioned in Russia has almost doubled

At the end of 2022, the volume of the Russian electric bus market reached 1,144 cars. For comparison, a year earlier, the figure was 617 units. Thus, over the year, the number of electric buses almost doubled, as stated in the report of Strategy Partners (LNG JSC), published in mid-April 2024.

The study notes that the total average annual growth rate of the electric bus market in Russia amounted to 31.3% from 2017 to 2022. By the end of 2023, the number of this type of public transport exceeded 1300 units.

Moscow is the leader in the number of electric buses in Russia - 95% of such machines in operation are concentrated in the capital. Moreover, in terms of the number of electric buses, Moscow also leads in Europe. As of April 2024, more than 1,600 Russian-made electric buses ensure the operation of environmentally friendly routes in the capital. In the spring of 2023, Moscow signed contracts with PJSC KamAZ and LiAZ for the supply of 1200 new electric buses: the city will receive them by the end of 2024 as part of the largest purchase of this type of transport in Europe.

Moscow is the number one in Europe in terms of the number of electric buses: more than 1600 Russian-made cars are already running in the city. We continue to expand the network of electric ground transport for the comfort of passengers and improve the ecology of the city on behalf of Sergei Sobyanin, "says Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport.

As the electric bus fleet expands, charging infrastructure is developing. In particular, the installation of ultra-fast charging stations continues: more than 340 such installations operate in Moscow, and about 200 more will appear before the end of 2024. Chargers work in any weather and are suitable for equipment from different manufacturers.^[2]

Ultra-fast complexes for charging more than 270 electric buses will be built in Moscow

By the end of 2022, a charging infrastructure will be created in two electric bus parks in the Mitino and Novokosino districts. Rosseti became the general contractor for the project. The contractor for the supply and construction of charging stations in accordance with the contract with Rosseti Moscow Region will be the operator of the charging infrastructure Sitronics Electro (part of the Sitronics Group). Sitronics announced this on August 16, 2022. Read more here.

2021

In Moscow, electric buses began to charge in a new way

In November 2021 To Moscow , they began to use new charging systems for electric buses. First, the technology will be tested on two vehicles running along route No. 791.

An innovative device with a reverse pantograph provides top-down contact with transport. On the roof of the electric bus there are contact rails, on which a pantograph is lowered. This technology will facilitate the electric bus and reduce the cost of transport. In addition, the technology involves the use of two-way Wi-Fi communication.

Adapted contact rails were installed on two electric buses, thanks to which the transport will be charged from the reverse pantograph

As emphasized in the Moscow Department of Transport, the interaction of the electric bus and the charging station is a completely domestic development. Thanks to it, parking of the electric bus will be predictable and will allow drivers to spend less time charging the electric bus.

Moscow will be the first city in Russia where the introduction of innovative electric transport infrastructure will begin. Such a technology, approved by NAMI, will allow charging any types of freight and commercial electric vehicles that can be used for urban needs, "said Maxim Liksutov, deputy mayor of the capital for transport.

This is a joint pilot project of the Department of Transport and Road Transport Infrastructure Development and the NAMI Institute. The innovative charging station is located in the branch "Central" GUP. Mosgortrans""

New charging stations were specifically launched before the start of winter to see how they would work in cold weather. If the technology turns out to be effective, it will begin to be massively introduced in Moscow after February 2022.

Electric buses, which by November 2021 run in Moscow, are designed for 85 passengers. The transport has 30 seats, media screens and USB slots for charging mobile devices.^[3]

Electric bus fire in Moscow

On the night of September 20-21, 2021, on the understudy of Dmitrovskoye Shosse, in the area of ​ ​ house number 157 in Moscow, an electric bus caught fire, which had been in operation for about three years. This was reported in the metropolitan Department of Transport. Read more here.

Moscow Polytechnic presented an unmanned bus "Smart Shuttle"

On August 23, 2021, specialists from the Moscow Polytechnic for the first time presented the "Smart Shuttle" - a drone for the park area, equipped with automatic control. The technique is configured to recognize objects, signs and paths thanks to special software and sensors. The drone operates on an electric drive and is designed for 4 passengers. Read more here.

Moscow will purchase 400 electric buses worth 24 billion rubles under life cycle contracts

Moscow will purchase 400 electric buses worth 24 billion rubles under life cycle contracts. This was announced on August 19, 2021 by the Moscow DIPP. Read more here.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the route of electric buses began to work

Sitronics Group stations are ready to launch a permanent route of electric buses in Nizhny Novgorod. The company announced this on August 2, 2021. Read more here.

Start of production of the Pioneer 6245 electric bus with night charging

In mid-February 2021, PC Transport Systems (PC TS) announced the start of production, according to the company, of the first two-section electric bus in Russia with night charging. According to the developers, a model called "Pioneer 6245" will be able to drive on a single charge throughout the day. Read more here.

2020

By the end of the year, Rosseti will install 53 charging stations for the capital's electric buses

By the end of 2020, Rosseti will install 53 charging stations for the capital's electric buses. This became known on September 7, 2020. Read more here.

Bus2Grid - electric buses in London will give 1 MW of energy to the city's electricity grid

In August 2020, a project was launched in London that allows electric buses to give electricity to the city's energy network. Read more here.

Mosgortrans purchased 100 electric buses from KamAZ

On June 17, 2020, it became known that KamAZ supplied Mosgortrans with the first 100 electric buses as part of the third contract concluded six months earlier. Read more here.

Tokyo airport launches unmanned bus carrying passengers to plane

At the end of January 2020, All Nippon Airways (ANA) launched an unmanned electric bus carrying passengers to the plane at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. Read more here.

2019: Volvo unveils world's first self-driving electric bus

In early March 2019, Volvo introduced, according to the company, the world's first full-size unmanned electric bus. A model called the Volvo 7900 was developed in conjunction with Nanyang University of Technology (NTU). Read more here.

2018: Electric buses strike oil industry

By 2018, electric buses, until recently not taken seriously by anyone, turned out to be the very lever with which you can turn the world of urban transport and radically influence the development of the oil industry.

In China, 9.5 thousand electric buses are produced every five weeks (figures comparable to the entire fleet of England), which are immediately displayed on city routes instead of diesel cars. By the end of 2017, 385,000 such buses were traveling around the world, and the predominant part - 99% - was moving along the streets of Chinese cities. Electric buses account for 17% of this urban vehicles of the Celestial Empire, and this is just the beginning.

BYD Double Decker Electric Bus

Of course, such production rates have noticeably reduced the demand for fuel. Diesel buses consume 30 times more fuel than cars, and the introduction of electric buses has had a much greater impact on the energy sector than all cars produced by Tesla, Toyota and other companies combined.

According to BNEF calculations, each thousand electric buses will displace about 500 barrels of diesel fuel per day from the market. Taking into account the 1.9 thousand electric buses produced weekly in the PRC, the same number of them is scrapped, that is, in other words, it ceases to consume diesel. As a result of the production of Chinese electric buses in 2018, fuel consumption will decrease by almost 280 thousand barrels per day, that is, by 37%. By comparison, about the same amount of fuel is burned by Greece, with urban transport accounting for 233,000 barrels.

Fuel Consumption Reduced by Electric Buses, Data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Authorities in major cities around the world have long been trying to solve the problem of polluted air. The pressure of environmental organizations and international obligations is not weakening, so the purchase of electric buses will be extremely profitable, said Colin McKerracher, head of the London Transport Research Center.

China is outstripping the world by replacing diesel urban transport with electric transport, but there is a reason - Chinese cities, which developed at a rapid pace in the twenty-first century, had the most serious air pollution problems. In the early 2000s, Shenzhen was a typical example of a thriving Chinese city with suffocating smog, and in 2009 the government selected it for a pilot program to save energy and introduce zero-emission vehicles.

In 2011, the Chinese company BYD released the first electric buses, and by December 2017, the entire Shenzhen city transport fleet - 16 thousand units - consisted of only them. BYD is responsible for 13% of the Chinese electric bus market - by 2018, the company had produced 35,000 units of equipment and entered into an agreement for the supply of another 15,000 for the next year. BYD estimates the company's buses have saved 6.8 billion litres of diesel, meaning 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide has not entered the atmosphere. For comparison, the European leader in urban electric transport, Great Britain, has only 344 electric buses, in France there are only 75 units of electric public transport.

European countries with the highest adoption of electric buses, including hybrid

But other cities are already taking an example from Shenzhen. Paris, London, Mexico City and Los Angeles, as well as nine other metropolitan areas around the world, have announced a full transition to sustainable public transport by 2025. London is slowly replacing its fleet - already four routes in the city centre are served by electric buses, and the programme plans to upgrade 5,000 older diesel buses.^[4]

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