Big BYD EV bus fleet for Bogota | Automotive Industry News

BYD declared the supply of 470 pure electric buses to Bogota, the cash of Colombia. This is the country’s largest pure electric bus fleet, and also the largest bus fleet BYD has delivered in the Americas.

The Bogota town govt and the Bogota town community transportation authority (Transmilenio) held a supply ceremony for the very first batch of one hundred twenty buses which will be employed on nine routes throughout the town by from 26 December, 2020, and will serve about sixty nine,300 travellers alongside the routes. The remaining 350 units will be put on the other thirty routes through the very first quarter of 2021.

A charging station in the Fontibon district of Bogota is outfitted with fifty six double-gun electric chargers with a electricity of 150KW. The building of the charging station, the set up of the chargers and the electricity offer have been managed by Codensa, a joint venture founded by ENEL, an Italian electricity grid enterprise and the Bogota Electrical power Group. When the buses and charging stations are officially put into procedure, it is estimated that more than 400 job alternatives will be developed for the neighborhood communities, including drivers, logistics and servicing staff.

Each bus can take 1.5 to 2.5 several hours to cost fully with a cruising assortment of about 300km (two hundred miles) on a one cost.

The buses are 12m and 9m types, with passenger potential of eighty and 50 folks respectively.

Each bus has a driver security cabin, Tv, WiFi, stability cameras, smart transportation procedure, mobile phone charging USB interfaces, accessibility system for folks with disabilities, and “other folks centric attributes”.

BYD entered the Colombian industry in 2012.