New European electric bus ZeEUS project underway

摘要

Belgium - A new European funded electric bus project called the Zero Emission Urban Bus System (ZeEUS) project was launched in Brussels last month. UITP (International Association of Public Transport), the international non-profit association for the promotion of the public transport sector headquartered in Brussels, is to coordinate 40 partners in this project. Its aim, it says, is to extend the fully electric solution to a wider part of European urban bus networks. This initiative is being co-funded by the DG Mobility and Transport of the European Commission with a budget of EUR22.5m (EUR13.5m EU-funded). UITP points out that already there are solutions for electric bus systems on the streets today including full-size trolley-buses, full electric battery mini- and midi- vehicles and full-size diesel-hybrid buses, so the ZeEUS project focus is to look at the next challenge - i.e. vehicles of larger capacity (12m and more/double deckers) from plug-in hybrid to full electric buses and urban-optimised mobility concepts and infrastructure.