Wrightbus is a Northern Ireland-based 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 an internal combustion engine. Electric buses can store the needed electricity on board,or be fed continuously from an external source. The majority of buses storing electricity 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 which uses flywheel energy storage. When electricity is not stored on board,it is supplied by contact with outside power sources. For example,overhead wires as in the trolleybus,or with a ground-level power supply,or through inductive charging.
First Glasgow is the largest bus company serving the Greater Glasgow area in Scotland. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup. The company operates within the area covered by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport,a public body responsible for helping to co-ordinate public transport services in the Greater Glasgow area.
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.
The Volvo B5LH is a low-floor hybrid electric bus chassis for both single-decker buses and double-decker buses manufactured by Volvo between 2008 and 2023. It is the basis for Volvo's integral 7700 Hybrid full low floor city bus and its successor,the 7900 Hybrid from 2011. In 2008,pre-production batches of both types of chassis were manufactured. Serial production started in June 2010. From 2013 it is also available as an articulated bus chassis. First entering service in London,the B5LH is the only current double decker type in service in the United Kingdom that uses a parallel hybrid drive system.
The BYD K-series bus are a line of battery electric buses manufactured by the Chinese automaker BYD,powered with its self-developed lithium iron phosphate battery,featuring a typical operating range of 250 kilometres (160 mi) per charge under urban road conditions. It is available in several different nominal lengths,from 7.0 to 13.7 m and also as a 18 m (60 ft) (articulated) bus. The rear axle is powered by two electric traction motors;the battery capacity and motor power of each model varies depending on the nominal length and passenger capacity.
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 2018,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-emission battery electric bus chassis for both single-decker buses and double-decker buses,manufactured by Volvo 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.
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. An electric variant of the diesel integral Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC,which had been launched that same year to replace the outgoing Enviro200 and Enviro300,the Enviro200EV utilises BYD's own 12 m chassis and drivetrain and has a range of up to 160 miles with a recharge time of 3.5 hours. A shorter 10.8 m variant was subsequently added to the range in 2016.
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.
The BYD B series are a line of battery electric buses produced by Chinese vehicle manufacturer BYD. It is the first bus model powered by BYD's Lithium Iron Phosphate Blade batteries. It is available as a 10-metre single-decker (B10),a 12-metre single-decker (B12) a 12-metre double-decker (B12D),a 15-metre tri-axled single-decker (B15) and a 18-metre articulated bus (B18).
