The streets of Sweden will soon receive an influx of biofuel buses after Scania received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige.
Around 123 urban and suburban buses will be used in the greater Stockholm area, with the rest posted elsewhere. Scania had previously delivered both ethanol and biogas fuelled vehicles to the company and the new buses are expected to be equipped with engines for renewable fuels ethanol and rapeseed methyl ester.
There are significant environmental benefits to the vehicles too as compared to using a conventional diesel engine they reduce carbon dioxide emissions by around 70 per cent with ethanol and 64 per cent with rapeseed methyl ester.
The vision is that Keolis Sverige will use sustainable transport to double transit ridership in Swedish cities and hopes to have around 60 per cent of its 2,000 buses running on renewable fuels by the second half of 2011.
Scania meanwhile has released its ethanol buses to countries including Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Norway; and has delivered around 800 ethanol buses to date.
Deliveries of the buses in Sweden will take place from April-July with operations to begin between June and August.
