Ashok Leyland launches Indian-made electric bus

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Chennai - Ashok Leyland Ltd has unveiled a prototype of an electric bus, named 'Circuit' for evaluation purposes. Ashok Leyland said the electric bus had been developed in conjunction with its majority-owned UK subsidiary, Optare Plc and that its engineers had been working closing with its engineering colleagues at Optare, who have had considerable experience of building electric versions of its single deck bus, Solo; most recently at the Euro Bus Expo 2016 in Birmingham, it displayed a full electric version of the Metrodecker double deck bus.