New Volvo 8900 Meets Exacting Standards of Green Efficiency
Volvo Bus Corporation Press Information New Volvo 8900 Meets exacting standards of Green Efficiency Volvo Buses’ new Volvo 8900 intercity bus is lighter, more fuel efficient and has solutions that facilitate the maintenance of the bus. “We are now able to offer our customers a more environmentally friendly bus that also lowers their operating costs,” says Stefan Guttman, Volvo Buses’ Director of city buses in Europe. Everyone is in agreement that major initiatives are required to reduce the global environmental impact. Across the globe, politicians are making decisions concerning measures to reduce emissions, which affects the bus sector to a great degree. Bus operators are required to choose vehicles with lower fuel consumption and lower emissions than before. Since a considerable share of cities’ bus traffic is financed through tax funds, bus operators are also required to be more efficient and derive greater value from their bus service from the available tax funds. “The Volvo 8900 is a solution to these requirements,” says Stefan Guttman. “The Volvo 8900 is an intercity bus with lower environmental impact that features a number of different solutions to reduce the operator’s operating costs.” Entirely new body Volvo Buses currently has two different intercity models in Europe: the Volvo 8700, which is built in the plant in Wroclaw, Poland, with a steel body, and the Volvo 8500, which is built in the plant in Säffle, Sweden, with an aluminum body. In the new Volvo 8900, Volvo Buses has chosen to create an entirely new body with a composite of various materials. “Through this type of construction, we can use the materials that are best suited for various functions,” says Project Manager Carl-Johan Ragnarsson.
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