Scania to Provide Clean Buses to 20 Major Cities
Scania has joined the Global Industry Partnership on Soot-Free Clean Bus Fleets with a commitment to, by 2018, provide modern soot-free buses to 20 major cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
Here’s the issue: Black carbon is a significant component of outdoor air pollution, which has been linked to a series of adverse health effects, in particular premature mortality. Ongoing scientific research also strongly indicates that black carbon plays an major role in climate change.
“To tackle the challenge of poor air quality and climate change, Scania is proud to offer clean bus solutions operating at lower cost than today’s conventional diesel operations,” says Karin Rådström, Head of Buses and Coaches at Scania.
Scania today manufactures and sells soot-free buses that effectively produce up to 99 percent fewer black carbon emissions than older diesel engine technology.
Because, less than one-fifth of global buses currently have soot-free engines, the Global Industry Partnership notes”there is a growing opportunity to create economic, environmental, and human health benefits by transitioning the highest emitting and oldest engines in the global urban bus fleet to the cleanest fuels and engines available.”
The transition to soot-free buses is an initiative led by the International Council on Clean Transportation, ICCT, and UN Environment in cooperation with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Centro Mario Molina – Chile.
The targeted cities are Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, Nairobi, Santiago, São Paulo, and Sydney.
Some of these cities have already committed themselves to start procuring cleaner buses and Scania presently delivers soot-free buses to several of the targeted countries.
The cities will, in turn, provide fuel for engines, such as biodiesel, gas and ethanol that meet the Euro 6 or US 2010 emission standards. In 2016, Scania sold 2,583 soot-free buses (Euro 6), representing 30.5 % of the total bus sales.
These buses allow National and local governments to set realistic environmental performance standards for new buses while maintaining the same functionality.
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