Ashok Leyland bags order for 500 electric buses from Chennai MTC

Commercial conveyance shaper Ashok Leyland connected Thursday said its limb OHM Global Mobility has bagged an bid for 500, 12-m ultra-low level electrical buses from the Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai.

Switch Mobility, different subsidiary of Ashok Leyland, shall proviso Switch EiV12 exemplary buses to OHM, which successful crook shall run and support the buses implicit a play of 12 years, arsenic per the declaration awarded by Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC), the institution said successful a statement.

While 400 of these buses volition beryllium non-AC, 100 buses volition beryllium equipped with aerial conditioning arsenic well, it added.

The electrical buses person a seating capableness of 37 passengers, with abstraction for an further 24 lasting passengers. These person a scope of implicit 200 kilometers per charge. OHM is Ashok Leyland's electrical mobility arm, focused connected Mobility-as-a-Service business.

"We are committed to driving the modulation to electrical mobility, and this concern with MTC is simply a measurement guardant successful creating cleaner, much businesslike transport systems," Ashok Leyland MD & CEO Shenu Agarwal said.
Switch Mobility already has implicit 950 vehicles successful cognition and with this bid has a steadfast bid publication of implicit 2,000 vehicles, helium added.