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An electric bus implementation program in Santiago, Chile, inspired by the buses in Bogotá, Colombia, began in 2014 through a partnership between the Chilean Ministry of Transport and two privately held companies, Enel X and BYD, an Italian electric company and a Chinese bus making manufacturer, respectively.
Transantiago, Santiago's public bus system. Buses are now the main means of long-distance transportation in Chile, following the decline of the rail network. [2] The bus system covers the whole country, from Arica to Santiago (a 30-hour journey) and from Santiago to Punta Arenas (about 40 hours, with a change at Osorno).
Trolleybuses in Valparaíso, Chile, have provided a portion of the public transit service since 1952.The trolleybus system is the second-oldest in South America. [1] The originally state-owned system has been privately owned since 1982, and since 1994 it has been Chile's only operational trolleybus system.
100 Yutong E12s were ordered for bus operators in Santiago de Chile in 2018, as part of a scheme seeking to electrify the city's bus network by 2050, [21] while in Uruguay, as part of a scheme to begin replacing 150 diesel buses in the capital Montevideo, ten Yutong E12s were delivered to operators across the city in April 2020: four E12s were ...
It's extraordinarily rare, but every once in a while, there is a true emergency at work -- and a colleague turns hero. By all accounts, that was the case last week when a Chilean mechanic ...
Buses made up to 2005 used the Volvo D9A engine (340 bhp); then switched to the Volvo D9B engine (360 bhp) to confirm to the Euro 4 and Euro 5 emissions rules. In 2005, the platform's production was extended to Volvo Buses' factory in Curitiba, Brazil, which accommodated an order of 1,159 B9SALF units for the urban system of Santiago, Chile.
Bus rapid transit creep is a ... Many BRT systems suffer from overcrowding in buses and stations as well as long wait times for buses. In Santiago de Chile, ...
Ascendal Group is a British public transport company that operates Whippet in Cambridgeshire, the Ascendal Punta Arenas in southern Chile, and has a small shareholding in Hong Kong bus companies of Citybus through Bravo Transport.