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MOSCOW WELCOMES 600TH E-BUS Moscow Transport starts 2021 welcoming its 600th e-bus for the capital city, maintaining its leading position in Europe while introducing a local solution for converting regular modern buses to electric.
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ith a Moscow-based company presenting an IT platform for electric bus manufacturers, the developers promise to reduce energy consumption of electric vehicles by 25 per cent and increase the power reserve of e-buses to up to 150km, Moscow Transport (MT) explains. During a recent working meeting with Maksim Liksutov, the deputy mayor of Moscow for Transport, Russian manufacturer of automotive components NPP ITELMA showed a
prototype of an e-bus equipped with modern Russian-made components. The proposed equipment allows replacing the batteries of an electric bus, “…in five minutes at terminal stations using pit-stop mobiles, as well as to monitor batteries online,” the company states. The system will also make it possible to create an electric bus from any modern bus, it adds. “We welcome innovative solutions and are always looking for new ideas for urban transport development,” said Liksutov. “That is why our start-up fund was
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