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Yutong has unveiled a 26-meter e-bus for the Mexican market - Sustainable Bus
(www.sustainable-bus.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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Is this also a double-source-trolleybus ? How much of Mexico has infrastructure ready for that ? Or are they pure battery, it's not clear to me (trolleybuses are still used a lot in eastern europe, also in switzerland, but i wasn't aware that was so in Mexico ).
Those are purely battery-electric busses. This works pretty well for cities, as bus routes are usually short and most of the busses are needed during rush hour, so charging sessions in between are pretty easy to schedule. Its much harder with long distance routes, but if you build the charging infrastructure in strategic places, it should be doable.
Charging stations are usually located at the depot and some cities have charging stations at the last stations of a line. There are even wireless systems with pantographs either located on an arm touching down on the bus (panto-down) or going up from the bus to an electric rail (panto-up). For long distance routes, they will probably utilize somettjnf like this as well and charge at the stops for a few minutes.