Gearing up for the greenest Olympics ever gave London the opportunity to implement an ambitious plan to hybridise its red bus fleet. From when the first buses arrived on the fleet in December 2008, Transport for London (TfL) wanted to involve as many manufacturers as possible, who would trial as many hybrid offerings as they could.rn"We split the 56 initial buses in the hybrid fleet among different operators in London to allow them to get experience and knowledge of hybrid buses," explains Mike Winter, fleet development manager at TfL. This meant seven operators running 10 routes, using buses from four OEMs. All the vehicles had different battery types, technologies and theories as to how a hybrid should work most effectively.
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