Volvo Buses received an order for 700 city buses for Shanghai which will meet China’s newly enacted restrictive environmental legislation, the first with engines that also meet the Euro III emission standard.
In 2005, Sunwin Bus, Volvo Buses’ joint-venture company in Shanghai, signed a framework agreement for delivery of 2,000 city buses to the Shanghai Bashi Industrial Co. and 1,300 of these buses were delivered in 2006. Bashi has now signed a contract for the remaining 700 buses, and the deliveries will be made during the first half of 2007.
China now follows the rules set in European legislation with regard to emissions. The buses now being delivered are the first with engines that meet the Euro III standard, the emissions step that applied in Europe as recently as the past fall.
The chassis will be delivered as kits from Volvo Bus plants in Sweden. They will then be assembled at the Sunwin Bus plant in Shanghai, where the bus bodies are also manufactured.
Volvo Bus Corp. is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of large buses and coaches.
