List of electric bus makers and models

A fleet of eight Tecnobus Gulliver has been operated since 2008 by the Réseau de transport de la Capitale, in Quebec City.

Battery-powered Mercedes-Benz Citaro in Aachen, Germany

List of electric bus makers and models comprises battery-powered all-electric buses. Makers of trolleybuses are listed separately at List of trolleybus manufacturers.

Current

• ABB TOSA Flash Mobility, Clean City, Smart Bus, Geneva, Switzerland, A mass transport system with electric “flash” partial recharging of the buses at selected bus stops.^[1]
• APS Systems, Oxnard, CA, shuttle buses in partnership with Enova Systems^[2] and Saft^[3]
• Astonbus,^[4] Marina del Rey, CA: E-city midi and full-size models, with a range between 250 and 500 km. Astonbus is the Zonda Electric bus sole distributor in all EU states.
• Bolloré Bluebus.^[5]
• BredaMenarinibus ^[6] in Bologna, Italy. Zeus M-200 E model, with Ansaldo Electric Drive motor and 288V - 200 Ah lithium-ion batteries.
• BYD electric bus factories in Changsha and Dalian in China and Lancaster USA
• CaetanoBus has a consolidated offer in electric mobility products for cities and airports - e.City Gold, e.Cobus, C5 EL.

The BYD K9 all-electric bus allegedly features the longest drive range of 250 km (155 miles) on one single charge under urban road conditions.^[7][8]

• City Smile electric bus designed and manufactured by AMZ-Kutno in Poland.
• Complete Coach Works remanufactured electric bus in Riverside, CA USA.
• Designline International, in New Zealand: The Tindo solar-electric bus (prototype only).
• Ebus,^[9] in Downey, California, minibuses : 22 feet (6.7 m) buses .
• Electrontrans,^[10] in Lviv, Ukraine. Design and production of electric buses and trolleybuses.
• Iveco, in Turin, Italy: EuroPolis model.
• Jiangsu Alfa Bus company,^[11] Jiangsu, China, delivered in Italy by Rama Company.
• Kayoola Solar Electric Bus by Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) in Uganda.^[12]
• Linkker, Finland. Design and production of battery-electric buses that use opportunity charging (3-5min fast charging). Highest energy effifiency in the market. Initial development together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.^[13]
• Lujo EV, in Weihai City, Shandong Prov., China.:^[14] Lujo YX Bus69 LHD (9 m, maximum speed 80 km/h, maximum range 220 km).
• Mercedes-Benz Citaro, battery-powered articulated bus in Aachen, Germany
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is developing electric buses that are capable of battery swapping.
• New Flyer Industries New Flyer Industries currently offers a wide range of electric bus options ^[15]
• Optare: Solo EV, Versa EV.
• Proterra ^[16] in Greenville, SC: 35 feet (11 m) full-size bus FCBE 35.
• PVI, near Paris, France : Oreos 2X, Oreos 4X distributed under the brand Gepebus ^[17]
• Smith Electric Vehicles, Kansas City, Missouri, Speedster and Edison^[18] electric minibuses.^[19][20]
• Solaris Urbinos 8.9, 12 and 18 meters^[21] with about 100 km (60 miles) range and about 120 kWh battery pack, introduced in September 2011. Optional pantograph inductive.
• Specialty Vehicle Manufacturing Corp. (SVMC) in Downey, CA.
• Tecnobus,^[22] in Frosinone, Italy. The Gulliver model is currently used in several cities in Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
• Thomas Built Buses Inc. ^[23][24] in High Point, NC.
• Thunder Sky Energy Group^[25] of Shenzhen, China (near Hong Kong) builds lithium-ion batteries and has four models of electric buses, the ten passenger EV-6700 with a range of 260 km (160 mi), the TS-6100EV and TS-6110EV city buses (top speed 80 km/h), and the 43 passenger Thunder-Sky-EV-2008 highway bus (top speed 100 km/h), which has a range of 300 km (190 mi). The batteries can be recharged in one hour or replaced in five minutes. The buses are also to be built in the United States and Finland.
• Wuzhoulong, based in Shenzhen, China manufactures a range of urban battery electric buses
• Zonda Bus, in Jiangsu, China:^[26] YCK6128HEC (12 m), YCK6118HEC (11 m) and the Zonda Bus New Energy (with a 500 km only-electric range and a battery lifespan of above 500,000 km).^[27]

References

1. TOSA2013 TOSA Flash Mobility, Clean City, Smart Bus A mass transport system with electric “flash” recharging of the buses at selected stops. The large capacity, large capacity bus (18.75m long, 133 passengers) its in service since May 26th 2013 in Geneva/Switzerland (overhead conductive charging)
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17. http://www.pvi.fr?lang=en PVI's official website
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