{"id":3157,"date":"2018-06-26T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T06:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2018-10-16T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:44:46","slug":"volvo-buses-electric-buses-norway-norgebuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/electric-bus\/volvo-buses-electric-buses-norway-norgebuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo electric buses for Oslo, 7900 order from Norgebuss (17 units)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oslo<\/strong> is turning greener step by step, and Volvo Buses has\u00a0received an order for 17 Volvo 7900 Electric<\/strong> buses from Norgesbuss<\/strong>. I<\/span>n the Norwegian capital will also go into service 40 electric buses (thirty articulated and ten 12 meters) by Vdl Bus & Coach<\/a>, that will be deployed by the operator Unibuss. They’ll hit the road by spring 2019.\u00a0The 7900 Electric ordered by Norgebuss have a battery capacity of 200 kWh <\/strong>and\u00a0will be charged via CCS cable in the depot.<\/span><\/p>\n\"\"\n

Electric bus by Volvo, turnkey solution<\/h2>\n

To date, four Norwegian cities have ordered units of fully electric bus<\/a> from Volvo: Oslo is coming after\u00a0<\/span>Trondheim, Drammen and Lillehammer<\/a>.\u00a0The 7900 Electric, which will run in traffic in the area of Romerike just north of Oslo, <\/span>are being sold as a complete turnkey solution with Volvo providing all maintenance for the vehicles as well as their batteries, at a fixed monthly cost<\/strong>. After all, the possibility of not buying batteries (that bear on the total prize of an electric bus for about 20-30 per cent), is one of the main features of Volvo Buses offer in the field of electromobility, as specified by president Agnevall in the interview to Sustainable Bus (HERE<\/a> and below). The company has recently shown the\u00a0articulated version of the electric bus 7900<\/a>\u00a0(still at the concept stage) and also a first pilot in the field of autonomous driving<\/a>.<\/p>\n