NAGPUR CITY’S ETHANOL
GREENSCANIA BUS TO BE SHOWCASEDAT THE 1st ANNIVERSARY OF SMART CITY
PROJECT IN PUNE
Leading commercial vehicle and engine
manufacturerScania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt. Ltd. kickstarted a smart city
initiative in Nagpur with the first Ethanol powered Green Bus as a pilot to show
the environmental, social and commercialbenefits of a ScaniaBharat Stage V bus
run on locally produced alternate fuels. The bus was handed over to the Nagpur
Municipal Corporation (NMC)in August 2014 and has been in use in the city.
TheMunicipal Commissioner of Nagpur ShravanHardikar,
IAS, has kindly offered toshowcase India’s firstethanol powered city bus in
Pune on 25th June 2016, at the city’s first anniversary of the smart
city project launch. Prime Minister NarendraModi will attend the event and
launch a number of initiatives under the smart city project. Scania is honoured
to participate the Pune smart city anniversarywith the Green Bus on behalf of
Nagpur Municipal Corporation.
Scania is closely aligned with the
mission of establishing sustainable smart cities that balance superior citizen
services with ecological benefits and provide clean green and sustainable mass
transit options. The ethanol powered bus is a first step in that direction. Developed
as Scania’s pilot project in the area of bio fuel powered transport solutions,
the trial run of the Ethanol Green Bus in Nagpur has clearly demonstrated the
merits of implementing sustainable transport solutions in a country that is in
a phase of rapid urbanisation.
Clean and green renewable fuels,
together with safe and smartmobility solutions, play a vital role in India’s
smart city mission. They provide the blueprint for smart cities to develop
sustainable urban transport solutions. Mobility solutions that use bio fuels
can not only help in reducing emissions but also create value from waste. As
India grapples with climate change and waste disposal, bio fuel technologies
hold significant opportunities for the nation. These sustainable fuels also
have an important role to play in helping the Government of India achieve its
objective of reducing dependency on imported fossil fuels and reducing pollution.
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About Scania India
Scania, which is celebrating 125 years of global
innovation, is a leading manufacturer of premium commercial vehicles - heavy
trucks, buses and coaches, as well as industrial and marine engines. The
company offers a
world-class service network and dealership in the markets and sells a broad range of service-related products and
financial services.
In India, Scania has made its presence felt in the mining
and construction segments since 2007 through its partnership with Larsen &
Toubro (L&T). In 2011, Scania established the company, Scania Commercial
Vehicles India Pvt Ltd., to strengthen its presence in the on-road segment for
buses and trucks.
Scania has two manufacturing facilities in India - one
for trucks, and one for buses and engines. Scania has more than 1,500 trucks
and over 250 buses registered in the Indian market. The company has a current
production capacity of 2,500 trucks and 1,000 buses.
Social, environmental and economic sustainability is
at the core of Scania’s offerings. All Scania vehicles have the capability to
run on alternate fuels. Scania has world-class experience in mobility
solutions, which run on biofuels, and the company has brought this unique offer
to India. Scania handed over the first ethanol-run Green Bus in India to the
city of Nagpur in August 2014. Led by Scania’s philosophy of ‘local waste to
local fuel for local transport’, the company has initiated a pilot to showcase
how sustainable fuel can be produced from sewage water in India. Scania sees
itself as a partner to the Indian Government’s ambition of building sustainable
urban mobility solutions for Smart Cities.
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