{"id":70337,"date":"2023-01-26T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=70337"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:33:05","slug":"canberra-electric-bus-mb2805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/canberra-electric-bus-mb2805\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra’s First Permanent Electric Bus Hits The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yuton<\/p>\n

After a successful trial in 2020, the first of what will very soon be a dozen Yutong E12 electric buses has gone into service in Canberra.<\/p>\n

While the ACT has achieved 100 per cent renewable electricity, transport now accounts for Canberra\u2019s single largest source of emissions. As part of addressing this, the ACT Government has set a goal of achieving a zero-emission public transport system by 2040.<\/p>\n

This first electric bus represents a significant milestone towards that goal.<\/p>\n

A Bit About Yutong And The E12<\/h2>\n

While it may not be a name familiar to many Australians, Yutong has been around for decades – starting out as a bus repair factory in 1963 before expanding into bus manufacturing. The company claims a market share of more than 32% in its home country of China and delivers 65,000 buses and coaches on average annually. Yutong Australia began importing buses from China in 2012, so the company is pretty well established here.<\/p>\n

The E12 is Yutong’s first electric bus, which has been in production since around 2015. Aside from Transport Canberra, at least a dozen local operators had trialled a localised variant of\u00a0 the E12 by 2021, clocking up more than 500,000 kilometres between them – and feedback appeared to be generally very good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some basic specs of the Yutong E12:<\/p>\n