Stockholm orders 85 timber-fueled buses from Scania

July 5, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

Sweden has latched on to ethanol as a fuel source more strongly than just about any other country except Brazil. Unlike the U.S. and Brazil, where corn and sugar cane, respectively, are the primary feedstocks, Sweden is using waste from its timber industry. Now, the Stockholm transit company Busslink is getting in on the action by ordering 85 new buses from Scania. The new people movers are ethanol fueled and will join 100 other such buses delivered by Scania to the city since the beginning of 2009.

Stockholm already has the largest ethanol-fueled bus fleet in the world, with most of those operating on central city routes. Most of the new buses will be running on outlying suburban and regional routes. In total, Scania has delivered over 600 ethanol buses, more than 500 of them in operation in Sweden.

[Source: Scania]

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