Iveco won a 225 e-bus tender in Turin
Iveco Bus won the tender issued by GTT Torino, winning all three lots, together with Enel X as utility provider and Iveco Orecchia as dealer. Part of this vehicles will be used on a new BRT line. Earlier this year, Iveco Bus was awarded a tender for 120 electric buses issued by Autoguidovie.
Iveco Bus electric buses for Turin
The manufacturer will also provide 150 e-buses to Italian carrier Busitalia starting in summer 2023. In total, Iveco Bus stated it is going to supply over 1,000 buses in Italy in 2023 (through central purchasing body Consip).
In Turin, the manufacturer will supply 225 electric buses that will operate on the city’s urban lines. The framework agreement provides for a further 45 e-buses, that would bring the total to 270 units.
All the vehicles, the supply and installation of charging infrastructure and storage systems are financed with Next Generation EU funds of more than 150 million euro.
The framework agreement provides for the supply of 225 buses E-Way model as follows: 135 12-metre buses, 62 18-metre buses metres and 28 18-metre BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) buses. The latter they will be used on the new route of Line 2. The production of the buses, with the battery packs produced in Turin, will be completed in the new Iveco Bus plant in Foggia.
63% of Turin bus fleet to be electric
“We are particularly pleased because this tender, which is so strategic for GTT, has seen the participation of the main players in the sector – says Serena Lancione, CEO of GTT -. These buses in the coming years will radically change the face of public transport in Turin and will allow a total renewal of the fleet: 63% of GTT’s buses will be electric and thanks also to the strengthening of the tram and metro system, more than 80% of travellers in Turin will move electrically and therefore without polluting.”
