Electric airport buses

Pelican has released more details of the electric buses featured in last week’s BTN.
See British-Irish EXPO.

On display was the ABe14 airside bus which is not road legal and is specifically designed for moving passengers to and from the airport terminals to the plane, and is priced at £410,000 + VAT.

The other transport was the E12 city bus. This is a 12.2m long low floor bus and carries 39 seated passengers and 31 standing passengers.  With this vehicle the electric range is about 225 miles on a full charge. The cost is about £380,000 + VAT dependent on final specification.

Pelican is offering a third vehicle called the TCe12. This is a fully electric zero emission coach which carries 50 seated passengers but no standees. This vehicle is fitted out as a coach rather than a bus with more comfortable seats all with seat belts. It has luggage lockers under the passenger floor and is equipped with a wheelchair lift at the centre doors. The electric range is about 200 miles on a full charge and here the cost is £340,000 + VAT.  It has smaller batteries than the E12.

Richard Crump, Managing Director, told BTN that zero emission buses can run all day with the air conditioning and will recharge overnight.  “This is especially valuable when vehicles are stationary and probably in close proximity to pedestrians. All have electric heating and air conditioning as standard and also meet all current wheelchair access regulations”.

Pelican is the UK and Ireland importer and distributor for Yutong who is the largest electric bus manufacturer in the world. In service in the UK are over 200 units with a further 140 on order. Lead time from order to delivery is about seven months.

www.pelican-eng.co.uk

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