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Moscow launches its 500th electric bus; largest electric bus fleet in Europe

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Moscow, Russia has launched its 500 th electric bus—a KAMAZ 6282 electric bus. Moscow’s electric fleet is thus the largest in Europe. The KAMAZ 6282 uses lithium-titanate batteries, and has a range of 70 km on one charge. The electric bus is charged in 6-12 minutes with ultrafast charging stations using a half-pantograph.

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Moscow rolling out all-electric bus fleet in New Moscow district

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Moscow, which overall has the largest electric bus fleet in Europe ( earlier post ) has 8 separate bus fleets—all of them consisting of a mixture of e-buses and diesel buses. Now, the Russian capital is deploying its first all-electric bus fleet in the New Moscow district. thousand tonnes/year.

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Moscow adding another 115 ultra-fast charging stations for electric buses

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Today the city already has the largest electric bus fleet in Europe in terms of the number of electric buses produced in Russia, especially at the SVARZ eco-plant. Moscow is increasingly focusing on environmentally friendly transport.In 2021 the city Government refused to purchase diesel buses.

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KAMAZ opens center in Moscow to make electric buses

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Moscow is already the largest operator of electric buses in Europe with 600 e-buses in operation on its routes. The city plans to purchase another 1600 electric buses over next few years, with the goal of replacing the diesel fleet.

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Moscow plans to buy 500 more electric buses in 2022

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Moscow, Russia, currently runs 1000 electric public electric buses on 66 bus routes, giving it the distinction of operating the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and America. Today nearly half of the Moscow e-bus fleet has been financed by green bonds. Most of them will be purchased with the funds from the green bonds.

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Moscow begins testing first Russian-made articulated electric bus

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Moscow is considered to be the leader in the electric bus fleet in Europe. Next year, Moscow plans to buy 600 electric vehicles more and start to purchase articulated e-buses to make the entire city transport fleet eco-friendly. The new articulated electric bus is also the first electric bus in Moscow with an electric heater.

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Moscow begins testing of the GAZelle e-City electric minibus

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Today Moscow is now considered to be the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and we are starting to test a new one of electric vehicles. This model is suitable for routes with a low passenger traffic and can pass through narrow streets where a large electric bus will not pass.