David Brown, Go-Ahead Group Chief Executive speaks, looked on by Richard Harrington, Engineering Director, Go-Ahead London. SSE
October 18 saw a suitably branded BYD/Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV embark on a tour of the UK which will take in a number of low carbon energy and transport projects before arriving in Glasgow on October 29, three days before the COP26 climate change summit opens in the city.
The tour started from Go-Ahead London’s Northumberland Park garage, currently home to the largest fleet of battery-electric buses in the UK. It is also the site of the Bus2Grid project that allows battery-electric buses to become two-way chargers, putting power back into the grid at times of high demand.
SSE is a major partner at COP26 and alongside the Go-Ahead Group, BYD/Alexander Dennis and SWARCO will use the EV bus tour to showcase examples of the national effort already underway to decarbonise.
It will go via Oxford, Cambridge, Lowestoft, Ipswich, Peterborough, Nottingham, Mansfield, Warrington, Manchester, Harrogate, Newcastle, North Berwick and Edinburgh for a variety of events. These include …
