Madrid’s Municipal Transport Company (Empresa Municipal de Transportes, or EMT) has placed a fifth order for electric buses with Spanish OEM Irizar. The latest order is for 90 buses, and will bring the number of Irizar e-buses in EMT Madrid’s fleet to 175. The latest generation of Irizar’s ie electric bus is equipped with a… Read more »
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Madrid transit agency orders 30 more electric buses from Irizar e-mobility
The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT Madrid) has ordered 30 electric buses from Spanish OEM Irizar e-mobility. This is the agency’s fourth order from Irizar, and will bring the number of zero-emission Irizar buses in its fleet to 85. The 12-meter Irizar ie electric bus has been running on Madrid’s roads since 2019. It’s… Read more »
Madrid transit agency orders 30 more electric buses from Irizar e-mobility
The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT Madrid) has ordered 30 electric buses from Spanish OEM Irizar e-mobility. This is the agency’s fourth order from Irizar, and will bring the number of zero-emission Irizar buses in its fleet to 85. The 12-meter Irizar ie electric bus has been running on Madrid’s roads since 2019. It’s… Read more »
Irizar e-mobility to deliver 113 electric buses to Paris
Spanish electric bus-builder Irizar e-mobility, which has already supplied e-buses to several French cities, has signed an agreement with Paris transit agency RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) to supply zero-emission buses to the French capital. In the first two years of the contract, Irizar will deliver 113 units of its latest-generation Irizar ie bus…. Read more »
Spanish city of Zaragoza orders 68 Irizar electric buses
The Spanish city of Zaragoza aspires to be a climate-neutral city, and its City Council recently took the decision that all new urban buses would be electric. The city currently has 4 zero-emissions buses and 111 hybrids, out of a fleet of about 470 vehicles. As Sustainable Bus reports, transit operator Avanza has ordered 68… Read more »
Bus rapid transit line with Irizar e-buses launches in southwestern France
Transit provider Keolis, which operates fleets of electric buses in the Netherlands, Norway and several cities in France, has added two 100% electric bus rapid transit lines to its Chronoplus network, which serves eleven municipalities in the Basque Country in southwestern France. The electric buses serving the new lines were built by the Spanish manufacturer… Read more »
FCC Medio Ambiente and Irizar to begin production of electric refuse trucks
Spanish bus manufacturer Irizar and refuse collection firm FCC Medio Ambiente have partnered to produce Irizar ie electric refuse collection trucks. The two companies have conducted tests of the new trucks in several European cities, with “excellent results,” and the first 10 units will now go into production. The first 10 units will include 4×2… Read more »
Madrid transit agency orders 50 electric buses from Irizar and BYD
The city of Madrid has confirmed plans to phase out all diesel buses. By January 2023, the Spanish capital’s entire fleet will be made up of electric, natural gas and hybrid buses. Transit agency Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (EMT) ordered 30 BYD electric buses last September. Now EMT has awarded a tender for… Read more »
Spanish charging station uses second-life batteries from EV-maker Irizar
An EV charging station that uses energy storage based on second-life batteries from Irizar e-mobility is up and running at a Repsol service station in the Spanish city of Tolosa. This 50 kW DC fast charger, developed by Repsol and charging provider Ibil, is said to be the first one in Spain to employ second… Read more »
Shaffhausen, Switzerland to deploy 15 Irizar e-buses
The historic city of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is located on the River Rhine, which provides not only a picturesque setting, but a reliable source of hydroelectric power—an ideal source of green energy for the city’s new electric buses. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport (the equivalent of our Federal Transit Administration) has tested and certified the electric… Read more »