Three all-electric and seven electric-hybrid buses, all of them provided by Swedish automobile major Volvo, has started plying on the nine-kilometer-long Route 55 between Lindholmen and Johanneberg in Gothenburg. All the vehicles, ...
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Volvo Buses has introduced forward collision warning and emergency braking system which automatically pulls full brake to the bus if a collision with a vehicle in front is imminent The company is planning to introduce the technology in ...
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Volvo Buses and ABB have partnered to develop automatic e-bus fast charging solutions for electric-hybrid and full-electric Volvo buses. Under the deal, Volvo Buses will provide electric-hybrid buses and full-electric buses, while ABB ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Buses has developed new technology known as Zone Management technology, which regulates how the bus operates in specific zones along the route. The new technology features GPS that determines where ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Buses has delivered 124 units of articulated buses to Brazil based Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Rio de Janeiro. The new vehicles will be used to offer services on Transcarioca, which is a new BRT ...
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Volvo Electric has signed an agreement with Hamburger Hochbahn for the delivery of three to hybrid buses. The plug-in technology enables fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to be reduced by up to 75% and total energy consumption to be ...
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Volvo Buses has delivered 17 new hybrid buses - Volvo 7900 Hybrid - to Oslo, Norway on 6 October 2013, which will be operated by the Nettbuss st, a part of the Nettbuss Group. Currently, the Nettbuss Group has 43 Volvo hybrids in its ...
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Nova Bus, a subsidiary of Volvo Buses, has won a contract to supply 475 hybrid buses from Association du transport urbain du Québec (ATUQ), a consortium of the Quebec's nine transit authorities in Canada. The order also includes ...
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Volvo Buses is planning to close its manufacturing plant in Saffle, Sweden at the end of June 2013 and focus producing vehicles in its main plant in Wroclaw Poland. The company said that its decision to focus bus production in Poland ...
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Volvo has unveiled a new hybrid bus which the company is claiming to be 37% more fuel efficient than its diesel version. The new bus is powered by a small 4-cylinder diesel engine and is equipped with I-Shift gearchanging system which ...
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Swedish firm Volvo has expanded its facilities by adding 56,500m2 base of operations in Peru. The new facilities have been built with an investment of $17m and will be used for the commercial and after-market activities supporting Volvo, ...
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