Up to 1,400 electric range hybrid and pure electric double-deckers are set to be introduced into the cities of the Republic of Ireland, starting with 100 electric range Enviro400ERs for Dublin and Galway which are in a new green and yellow livery to be adopted gradually across all of the 26 counties
Transport for Ireland — the republic’s national transport authority — has stopped buying pure diesel urban buses. Early last year, it announced its first framework agreement to buy up to 600 electric range hybrid double-deckers and shortly before Christmas set out plans for 800 pure electrics.
The hybrids — the first volume order for them in the 26 counties — are coming from Alexander Dennis, ending over 30 years of the state-owned operators’ purchase of Volvo double-deckers and a dozen of specifying them with bodywork by Wrightbus.
