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Optare delivers Metrodecker EVs Optare PLC has delivered the first of 21 battery-electric Metrodecker EV double-deckers to First York. Deepti Thore
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ollowing the successful launch of the EV Double Decker in London with Metroline, Optare PLC, an Ashok Leyland subsidiary, has delivered the first unit of its 21 battery-electric Metrodecker EV double-deckers to First York. These have been delivered 18 months after the launch of the
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vehicle. The whole batch of buses expected to be delivered soon as part of 107 Metrodecker EV order Optare has received, the Metrodecker EVs are made and fully assembled at Optare’s factory in Sherburn, North Yorkshire, England. Employing more than 50 per cent of components supplied
by UK businesses, they would be carrying a new blue-based brand for the York park-andride network. Developed from the prototype by Optare in partnership with First York and the York City Council spanning a little over three years, the Metrodecker EVs are the first of their kind to enter service with
