Wrightbus is a Northern Irish bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus. The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright,until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman Jo Bamford.
An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors,as opposed to a conventional internal combustion engine. Electric buses can store the needed electrical energy on board,or be fed mains electricity continuously from an external source such as overhead lines. The majority of buses using on-board energy storage are battery electric buses,where the electric motor obtains energy from an onboard battery pack,although examples of other storage modes do exist,such as the gyrobus that uses flywheel energy storage. When electricity is not stored on board,it is supplied by contact with outside power supplies,for example,via a current collector,or with a ground-level power supply,or through inductive charging.
Go North East is a bus operator running both local and regional bus services in County Durham,Cumbria,Northumberland,North Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear,England. It was previously known as the Northern General Transport Company and Go-Ahead Northern. The company was the foundation of today's Go-Ahead Group,which now operates bus and rail services across the United Kingdom,as well as Germany,Ireland,Norway and Singapore.
First Aberdeen is the main bus company operator in Aberdeen,Scotland. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup.
A fuel cell bus is a bus that uses a hydrogen fuel cell as its power source for electrically driven wheels,sometimes augmented in a hybrid fashion with batteries or a supercapacitor. The only emission from the bus is water. Several cities around the world have trialled and tested fuel cell buses,with over 5,600 buses in use worldwide,the majority of which are in China.
There are 3,826 hybrid buses,1,397 battery electric buses,and 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses operating in London,as of March 2024,out of a total bus fleet of 8,776 –this is around 60% of the bus fleet.
The Wright StreetDeck is an integral double-decker bus manufactured by Wrightbus since 2014,originally delivered as standard with a Daimler OM934 diesel engine. Hybrid-electric,full-electric and hydrogen-powered variants have subsequently been produced. Production of the StreetDeck range was briefly suspended when Wrightbus entered administration in September 2019.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC,also marketed as the Alexander Dennis Enviro200,is a single-decker city bus produced by Alexander Dennis since 2014 as the successor to the Enviro200 midibus and Enviro300 full-size bus. The first Enviro200 MMCs entered service with National Express West Midlands in 2015. Notably,Enviro200 MMCs have been modified by Fusion Processing to be used as the basis for the first driverless bus trials in the United Kingdom.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro500 MMC is a low-floor,three-axle double-decker bus produced by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis since 2012,replacing the Alexander Dennis Enviro500. The Enviro500 MMC is available powered by either Euro VI diesel or hybrid-electric and later fully-electric powertrains.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro400 City is a low-floor double-decker bus produced by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis since 2015,as an alternative to the standard Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC bodywork. The Enviro400 City is produced at Alexander Dennis' Falkirk and Scarborough factories in the United Kingdom. It is available as a complete integral diesel or hybrid bus,as well as the Enviro400EV complete integral battery electric bus or Scania N280UD compressed natural gas-powered chassis.
The Wright GB Kite is a range of full-size zero-emission single-deck buses manufactured by Wrightbus since 2022. Similar in body style to the diesel powered Wright GB Hawk,the GB Kite is an integral design that can be built as a battery electric vehicle,the Electroliner BEV, and as a fuel cell electric vehicle,the Hydroliner FCEV.
The Volvo BZL is a full-size zero tailpipe emissions battery electric bus chassis for both single-deck buses and double-deck buses,manufactured by Volvo AB since 2021.
The Yutong E10,also sold as the longer Yutong E12,is a battery electric single-decker bus manufactured by Yutong in Zhengzhou since 2016 for both Chinese and international bus operators.
Ember is a coach operator based in Edinburgh,Scotland. It operates the first electric intercity coach services in Scotland.
The Yutong TCe12,sold as the Yutong ICe12 in continental Europe,is a battery electric coach manufactured by Yutong in Zhengzhou since 2017 for international bus and coach operators. It is based on the same technology used in the Yutong E10 battery-electric single-deck bus,having a maximum all-electric range of 200 miles,and can be configured as a school bus.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV is a battery electric double-decker bus produced by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis in partnership with Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD Auto since 2018. Based on its Alexander Dennis Enviro400 City body,which was launched in 2015 to compete with the hybrid electric New Routemaster,the Enviro400EV is produced at Alexander Dennis' Falkirk and Scarborough factories in the United Kingdom,with production of the type at the company's Larbert headquarters set to also commence in mid-2023. The Enviro400EV is available both as a complete integral battery electric bus and as a battery electric bus body on a BYD K series chassis,as well the integral Enviro400FCEV fuel cell bus.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro200EV is a battery electric single-deck bus produced by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis in partnership with Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD Auto since 2015.
The Alexander Dennis Enviro100EV is a battery electric integral midibus built by British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis. It is the first midibus produced by the company equipped with Alexander Dennis' own in-house electric drivetrain,complementing the BYD-powered Enviro200EV in the Alexander Dennis product range. The body of the bus is to be assembled in Zhuhai in China,while the chassis of the bus is to be assembled with the body at the Alexander Dennis factory in Scarborough in England.
Equipmake is a British manufacturer of electric motors for cars and buses based in Snetterton,Norfolk,England.
The Yutong U11DD is a battery electric double-decker bus manufactured by Yutong in Zhengzhou since 2023,launched initially for the United Kingdom bus market in right-hand drive configuration.
