The UK's biggest bus electrification project so far is due to be implemented in Edinburgh in June 2016, when Lothian Buses installs Volvo's 'virtual electric' hybrid system on a 16.75mile cross-city route. It signed a memorandum of understanding with Volvo at Euro Bus Expo that should see Siemens overhead charging stations provided at either end of route 30 at Clovenstone in the west and Musselburgh in the east, as well as overnight charging at its Longstone garage. This will allow a new fleet of 25 Volvo 7900H single-deckers to run in purely electric power, at normal road speeds, over three sections covering a quarter of the journey, reducing fuel consumption by a third from normal hybrid mode.
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