According to the Italian news, BYD recently delivered three 12-meter pure electric buses to Novara, a western city of Italy, after BYD's 20 electric buses flew in. After that, BYD again landed in Italy, bringing the total number of BYD's products to 23 in Italy. Taiwan pure electric zero-emission bus, set up Italy's largest electric bus fleet so far.
(Left to right) Marzio Liuni, Director of Carrier SUN, Alessandro Canelli, Mayor of Novara, and He Yipeng, General Manager of BYD Europe GmbH, attended the delivery ceremony
As early as 2014, the Environment Ministry of Piedmont, Italy, decided to step up environmental protection and improve air quality through the procurement of pure electric buses, which were jointly participated by bus operators GTT and SUN, while the GTT of Turin plans to procure 20 pure electric Buses, Novara SUN purchase 3. BYD stand out from the competition, will be all 23 bus orders in the bag.
These buses have the consistent characteristics of BYD's pure electric buses, that is, once charged to meet a day's operation.The bus has a total of 22 passenger seats, can carry 83 passengers, a dedicated wheelchair fixed position.No internal combustion gasoline engine, The noise is small and the vehicle can hardly hear the sound of the motor as it passes the downtown area, so the bus is equipped with a whistle to alert pedestrians and cyclists.
BYD electric buses delivered to Novara
He Yipeng, general manager of BYD Europe LLC, said, "I am grateful to the Piedmont government for its foresight and your optimism about the future of the new energy bus, from now on Novara's citizens can breathe fresh air. Believe that with the deepening of urbanization process of electric buses, diesel vehicles gradually withdraw from the market, the urban air quality will be greatly improved.
He added: 'In London, running the largest zero-emission BYD pure electric bus fleet in Europe with a cumulative mileage of more than 1 million kilometers. In addition, the BYD electric bus fleet has been running successfully for more than two years at the Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands North to Sweden, south to Israel all over the BYD bus customers.