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Plus, public transport needs to include last-mile connectivity. Sometimes the buses are overladen, sometimes the buses have three-four steps, which makes it difficult for some people to get in. “What is important is to meet the needs of the end passenger. This highlights the scope improvements in public transport, especially buses. He begins by pointing out that China has six buses for every 1,000 people, the same statistics in India stand at one bus for 1,000 people. Volvo Eicher will be launching more new products in the next six-wight months, including electric and city buses.Īlso read: Hydrogen power will see significant opportunities in the heavy-duty transportation market - Anand Chordia, Air Productsįurther to our conversation, Passey describes what can be done further to improve public transport in India.
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The target market will be long-distance fleet operators. Moreover, Eicher’s will be the first factory-built bus in this category. The company is targetting sales of 5,000-6,000 buses in the air-conditioned premium front-engined bus segment, which is currently serviced by Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland. We had a chat with Akash Passey, President, Bus Division, VECV, who tells us that the new bus will be Eicher’s finest bus in India with a design etiquette from Volvo. On-board telematics ensures benefits like GPS location, electronic ticketing, fleet management and also vehicle diagnostics. Since the merger of Volvo India into VECV less than a year ago, the company has been offering connectivity in all of its trucks and buses and so the new Eicher bus also features connectivity. The new buses will come in configurations of 43 pushback seats or as a sleeper coach that can accommodate 30 passengers. The facility earlier only built Volvo Bus bodies, but it will now also manufacture bodies for Eicher front-engine luxury buses. The new product, on the other hand, Eicher 6016 R LPO 12.4 m is a complete factory-built bus of which the driveline and chassis will be built at the VECV plant at Pritampur, Indore and the body at Volvo Buses body building Hosakote facility near Bengaluru. So far, VECV had light-, medium-duty buses and a long-distance chassis. Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles today stepped into a new segment of buses with a new Coach & Sleeper bus range.