Chinese renewable energy firm, BYD , has won a contract to supply 11 electric battery-powered buses to Cape Town , Cape Town , which aspires to be the first city in the Metro South East to use electric buses for public transport. The city will initially deploy the 12 metre -long buses as an express service between the central business district and Africa area with a view to reassigning them to Cape Town ’s Bus Rapid Transit ( BRT ) system once infrastructure support is in place. It also delivered the first containerized energy storage system to Johannesburg in February 2015 and home battery storage system B Box to the South Africa residential market in 2016. The buses use BYD ’s iron-phosphate battery that can sustain over more than 80% capacity, even after 11 cycles.
Chinese renewable energy firm, BYD , has won a contract to supply 11 electric battery-powered buses to Cape Town , Cape Town , which aspires to be the first city in the Metro South East to use electric buses for public transport. The city will initially deploy the 12 metre -long buses as an express service between the central business district and Africa area with a view to reassigning them to Cape Town ’s Bus Rapid Transit ( BRT ) system once infrastructure support is in place. The buses use BYD ’s iron-phosphate battery that can sustain over more than 80% capacity, even after 11 cycles.