Scania secured the ethanol bus order following a few years of field trials in Sao Paulo, coordinated by professionals with links to the University of Sao Paulo and with participation by ethanol suppliers, bus bodybuilders, operators and Sao Paulo transport authorities.
The new Scania buses will operate in Sao Paulo, where transport authority SPTrans is aiming at an initial fleet of 200 ethanol buses to replace the use of fossil fuel with a renewable source in public transport for emission reduction.
One official environmental target for Sao Paulo is to have a total of some 15,000 public transport buses operating within the city to run on renewable fuels by no later than 2018 to drive sustainable development work.
Scania plans to manufacture the ethanol powered buses in Brazil, with the chassis assembly of the buses planned to take place in Scania’s production unit in Sao Paulo and bodywork to be prepared by a local company.
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