In event, the district administration announced that in April Bogotá will reach 1,061 electric buses in the Public Transportation System in operation and at the service of citizens.
(Electric and hybrid vehicle registrations grew 107%).
“Today the city has a new patio and 1,061 new electric buses running, this is an effort of the Bogota and Colombian private sector and of different international companies that help us modernize our transportation system in the city”emphasized the mayor Claudia López.
Likewise, the president announced that in the In the coming weeks, 406 new buses will start operating. This electric fleet will be made up of 271 van-type vehicles, with capacity for 50 passengers, and 135 standard-type vehicles, with capacity for 80 passengers. “The entry into operation will be done progressively, starting with 213 buses, on Saturday, April 2, and 193 on April 23,” TransMilenio said in a statement.
(Volvo unveils the C40 Recharge electric car in America).
The announcement was made in the “largest in Latin America” Patio Taller, from where the buses that will serve the inhabitants of the towns of Fontibón, Usme, Ciudad Bolívar, Usaquén, San Cristóbal, Chapinero, Teusaquillo and Kennedy will operate. The “Green Mobile Logistics Center” is located in the Las Brisas neighborhood of the town of Fontibón and has an electrical power of 20 Mega Watts.
The Bogotá transportation system also assured in the statement that “with the entry into operation of the 406 electric buses, 6.5 tons of particulate matter and 17,000 tons of CO2 will no longer be emitted per year. Once the entire fleet of 1,485 electric buses is operating, the decrease will be 94,300 tons of CO2 per year. Which would be equivalent to taking 42,000 private cars out of circulation in Bogotá.”
(New line of ultralight trucks, the Chevrolet strategy).
The vehicles will be equipped with technological elements such as on-board cameras, USB ports to charge cell phones, GPS, information panels, speakers and microphones that have direct communication with the Control Center. As well as accessible platforms for people with disabilities, ascent assistant or hill start, rapid energy recharging process and automatic fire control.
“Continuing with the connection of the electric fleet to the Bogotá Transportation System strengthens us in our purpose of improving the service to our users, our reason for being. We will be able to increase frequencies, reduce noise, improve air quality for users and the community in general, we are putting at the service of citizens the best technology offered by the current market,” assured Álvaro José Rengifo, manager of TransMilenio.
Rengifo also explained that, “in addition, directly more than 1,100 formal jobs were created through the Green Mobile dealer; in addition to the jobs generated by Marcopolo, of labor from Bogotá and Cundinamarca, to build BYD chassis.”
The 406 buses will provide their service through 14 routes of the zonal component of the System, of which 4 are new routes and 10 replace routes of the extinct Provisional SITP.
The first 213 electric buses, which will come into operation on Saturday, April 2, will serve the following 7 routes:
• KG311: Big Bridge – Bosa San José
• KB314: The Breezes – Codito
• KH318: Las Brisas – Uval
• KA332: Bend – Porziuncola
• KH327: Big Bridge – Las Acacias
• KL331: The Breezes – New Delhi
• KL325: Las Brisas – Laches (El Dorado) The 193 buses that will begin their service on April 23 will do so with these 7 routes:
• KA308: Big Bridge – El Tuno
• KB326: Prado Grande – Unicentro
• KL312: Las Brisas – Moralba • KA324: El Refugio – La Perseverancia
• KL329: Las Brisas – San Martín de Loba • KL328: Puerta de Teja – Avenida 1 de Mayo Station
• KH317: Airport – Tunal Shopping Center
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