With the standard tank option storing LNG, the Touring can cover more than 1,000 km before needing to refuel.

Higer imports buses to South America via a JV in Brazil.

Another city in Brazil, this time a city with hot temperatures of up to 41 deg. C, Cuiabá of Mato Grosso State, has begun testing China’s Higer electric 12m low floor bus, the Azure A12BR e-bus.

This mid-sized low-floor urban city electric bus has been developed for the European bus market. The bus ranges from 8.7 to 9 metres and builds on the 12-metre Higer Azure series imported by the Harris Group in Ireland.

Higer completed the delivery of 780 Higer Buses worth USD55m to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the “Belt and Road Initiative”, signifying the largest ever bus export from China to Saudi Arabia.

TEVX Motors* is building a factory Pecém to be able to locally assemble the new electric buses for the city of Cascavel, Paraná State.

Chassis are shipped from Suzhou in China for bodying by local body builder, Del Monte Motor Works Inc.

The trials follow the announcement of a new manufacturing site to be built in Pecém.

ZF do Brasil Ltda, headquartered in Sorocaba, São Paulo state, announced its parent company, ZF Group is the main drivetrain supplier to Higer Bus Company of Suzhou, China, for an electric bus that has started trials / tests with a city bus operator in the city of São Paulo; full scale operations of several electric Higer Bus buses are expected to start during the first half of 2022.

The new Touring, made in China, has an increased front-axle load capacity of 500 kg along with improvements to the powertrain and an adaptive cruise control function.

Higer Bus Co Ltd has started on-road field tests of its full-electric city buses in Brazil.