ADL announces move into fully integral battery electric buses
By Jim Gibbins - 3rd September 2022
A glimpse of the design of the new integral battery electric bus by Alexander Dennis
UK / Hong Kong - Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) of Larbert (a subsidiary of Canada’s NFI Group Inc) has announced it is to offer its own in-house integrated battery-electric city buses in single and double deck forms.
The new battery-electric models share technology and key driveline components with its second-generation integral hydrogen bus, the Enviro400FCEV, which uses the HD version of the Voith Electrical Drive System from Voith GmbH & Co KGaA of Heindenheim, Germany, offering 350kW peak and 250kW continuous power output. The new battery-electric models are to be available for customer delivery from late 2023, stated ADL, starting with a new ‘small’ (length unspecified) bus and a new double deck city bus – see Hong Kong order from KMB in March this year, below. The new models, ADL stated, will be built to a new design developed in-house together with input from students at Coventry University’s Automotive and Transport Design course.
