The first inter-urban LNG buses ordered by TPER , Emilia-Romagna Passenger Transport, produced by Scania , arrived in Bologna.
A ceremony will take place in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna on Friday December 6th , in the presence of local institutions as well as Giuseppina Gualtieri, President and CEO of TPER and Franco Fenoglio, President and CEO of Italscania .
Scania had come second in the European tender launched in 2016 and 2017, but the first-ranked Italian IIA (Italian Bus Industry) relinquished.
The final decision was taken by the TPER Board of Directors last January 22 for a total of forty-six new methane-powered buses between inter-urban and urban service.
The first order of 15 intercity vehicles had to be delivered by Scania this year and constitute an absolute novelty in the field of interurban public transport, at least in Italy. The second lot, comprised of thirty-one vehicles, still awarded to IIA, falls within the range of Citymood buses in the metropolitan LNG version and should be delivered by the spring of 2020. The total investment is 11.5 million Euros .
As reported by Staffetta Quotidiana , on the way to Bologna the buses refueled LNG on 21 November at the Delta Energy road plant, near the Trento Nord motorway exit on the A22 del Brennero motorway, supplied by Maxcom Petroli, a historic oil company which since 1988 has been selling products for the net, extra-network, marine and aviation markets, which recently also entered the LNG market.