The focus is on LFP chemistry systems, featuring thermal runaway temperature of up to 800 ℃. By removing the conventional module parts, the 3rd generation CTP technology increases the battery energy density by 10% to 15%, utilizing the bus payload and making it perfect for city and airport transportation, partners say.

CATL – CaetanoBus partnership go live

The flexible configuration system that CATL developed for CaetanoBus is suited for various CaetanoBus electric buses. These high-performance batteries will enable Caetanobus to create a wide range of zero-emission bus products to realize the sustainability benefits of electrification. 

“CATL always strives to provide leading battery solutions to the world,” said Akin Li, executive president of CATL. “Developing a comprehensive network with diversified commercial vehicle OEMs globally is crucial to our business sector. More importantly, we are pleased to get together with CaetanoBus to pave the way for responsible and sustainable city and airport transportation.” 

CaetanoBus CEO Patricia Vasconcelos highlights, “The collaboration between CaetanoBus and CATL is a key milestone for both entities and for the market, in the pursuit of the industry’s Zero Emissions objectives. With the inclusion of these powerful batteries in our urban and airport buses, we will improve our offer and respond directly to customer demands for sustainable transport solutions. This partnership emphasizes our commitment to Zero Emission buses, reinforcing CaetanoBus trajectory to be one of the leaders of the transition in urban and airport bus transport. This collaboration represents a giant step towards environmental responsibility and reinforces our strategy of developing 100% electric and electric powered by hydrogen buses for a cleaner and greener future!” 

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The nascent fuel cell coach segment is then starting to get some “population”, with Irizar launching at Busworld 2023 in Brussels (that opens on 7th October) its i6S Efficient Hydrogen.

CaetanoBus – Temsa fuel cell coach ready in 2024

The goal of the partners is to enter series production in 2025. A 2-axle version will be the first to be produced, and a 3-axle version will follow suit. According to the information released so far, the vehicles will be able to use both 350 bar and 700 bar hydrogen, thanks to Toyota H2 Dual System technology.

Coach range? The partners claims it’ll be able to run for up to 1,000 km on a single refueling.

CaetanoBus underlines that the company “is very knowledgeable about coach operational requirements once is the manufacturer of the National Express coaches’ fleet for the UK as well as for several operators in Iberic market”.

CaetanoBus is focusing a lot on the segment of fuel cell city buses. In the first half of 2023 96 units were registered in Europe in that segment, vs the 52 of last year (+84%). CaetanoBus places first with 28 units, followed closely by Van Hool with 26. The latter is still leading the market in the period 2012 – June 2023 with 132 registrations. Germany is at the moment the country with the most fuel cell buses in operation (without considering those registered before 2012): 167 vehicles.

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In addition to the buses, the entire charging infrastructure will also be supplied, which will include five Siemens Sicharge UC 100 chargers and 10 Siemens dispensers, also manufactured in Portugal. The project also includes the Depot Finity charging management software, also by Siemens.

CaetanoBus is cooperating with Spanish bodybuilder UNVI on a e-bus model built for Spanish market. Also in summer 2022 the Portuguese manufacturer has announced an agreement with Industria Italiana Autobus to start the production and marketing in Italy of hydrogen-powered city buses based on Toyota Fuel Cell technology and an H2.City Power Kit.

New batteries on CaetanoBus e-buses

The buses will have a new version of batteries, with greater autonomy, which will allow the operator to carry out the different routes of the city without the need for intermediate charging throughout the day, CaetanoBus states. Besides this, the vehicles will be equipped with the most recent air conditioning and heat pump systems, driving support safety systems for the driver and passengers – camera rear-view system (replacing the mirrors), systems to warn of the presence of pedestrians, bicycles and scooters in places of low visibility on urban routes, eliminating the danger of blind spots, and active and passive safety systems, such as the distance radar for the vehicle in front, the lane change warning system, among others.

Nuno Lago de Carvalho, Chief Commercial Officer of CaetanoBus, highlights: “we are proud to be the best positioned company in a highly demanding international tender where the CaetanoBus battery electric buses were the choice of the Transdev Group. We are happy to deserve the confidence of a prestigious operator like Transdev, to be able to contribute with 10 more zero-emission buses that will help to decarbonize another Portuguese city and in particular because this order supports the national industry with a proven record of producing state-of-the-art buses that contribute to a clean and excellent public transport service”.

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Just last week the same Portuguese manufacturer has announced an agreement with Industria Italiana Autobus to start the production and marketing in Italy of hydrogen-powered city buses based on Toyota Fuel Cell technology and an H2.City Power Kit.

CaetanoBus with UNVI

The Caetano e.CC 121 is a is a low-floor 100% electric chassis, designed by CaetanoBus for bodybuilders. In cooperation with UNVI this 100% electric bus is manufactured in Spain with a steel body meeting rollover regulation (R66) with optimized weight and passengers’ capacity. The battery capacity can go up to 420 kWh.

Caetano and UNVI strategic cooperation “envision to meet the demands of the Spanish market through an agreement for the development, manufacture, and sale of the electric bus Caetano UNVI C21. By virtue of extensive market experience and a shared vision for e.Mobility, the partnership is ideally placed to amplify the offer of zero-emission buses around Spanish cities and move forward with decarbonization”, partners point out.

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CaetanoBus at VDV-Electric Bus Conference 2022

The 13th VDV-Electric Bus Conference and exhibition ElekBu, taking place in Berlin from July 12-13, focuses on the solutions that will build the mobility of the future, given the fact that the ultimate goal for the transport industry is to increase climate protection in the transport sector and enable sustainable mobility. This involves electrifying all means of public transport. The event will also give highlight the Fuel Cell vehicles, from the technical implementation to refueling infrastructure to the procurement of green hydrogen.

Caetano will have in exhibition the H2.City Gold bus, which was launched the H2.City Gold since 2020 and in operation in various European cities, with more than 75 units already sold, most of them to the German market. The vehicle is the result of a partnership between Toyota and Caetano, which was the first company in Europe to use the Japanese Fuel Cell technology.

The H2.City Gold is a standard low-floor lightweight bus with a 3-door aluminum body. The vehicle is equipped with a Toyota fuel cell with a nominal power of 60 kW, an LTO battery with a capacity of 44 kWh from the French supplier Forsee Power and a Siemens powertrain with a peak power of 180 kW. The energy efficiency of H2.City Gold is recognized by all operations with the Caetano H2 fleet, as having the lowest H2 consumption of the segment.

Patrícia Vasconcelos, CEO of CaetanoBus will give a presentation on the first day of the event, July 12, at 1.30 p.m., in the thematic block of hydrogen. She will present the H2 technology of CaetanoBus and the contribution of the company to a Zero-Emission Buses scale-up.

Caetano will host the annual VDV meeting next September in the headquarters of the company in Vila Nova de Gaia.

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The H2.City Gold is a standard low-floor lightweight bus with a 3-door aluminum body. The vehicle is equipped with a Toyota fuel cell with a nominal power of 60 kW, an LTO battery with a capacity of 44 kWh from the French supplier Forsee Power, and a Siemens powertrain with a peak power of 180 kW. The energy efficiency of H2.City Gold is recognized by all operations with Caetano H2 fleet, as having the lowest H2 consumption of the segment.

CaetanoBus launched the H2.City Gold since 2020 and in operation in various European cities, with more than 70 units already sold, most of them to German market..The vehicle is the result of a partnership between Toyota and Caetano, which was the first company in Europe to use the Japanese Fuel Cell technology.

This is an important moment for CaetanoBus as France is a key and strategic market. Caetano was already awarded the supply two H2.City Gold units to RATP DEV in La Roche-Sur-Yon, and now with this order the brand increases its presence in France.

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In the future, the hydrogen for the specially built filling station will be produced on site.

moBiel tests fuel cell buses

The project announced in 2020 is thus gaining momentum. The H2.City Gold hydrogen buses are used on route 29 between Baderbach and Schildhof. The vehicles will drive all day on the 7.6-kilometer route with a total of 24 stops. This test run is intended to show, among other things, how far the buses can get with a tank load of 37.5 kilograms of hydrogen.

The vehicles will be refueled once a day to be able to do more than 400km, on a hydrogen filling station next to the parking hall for the buses.

The Caetano H2.City Gold, developed in partnership with Toyota and launched in 2019,  is also already present and being used in Schleswig-Holstein as part of the eFarm project, by ESWE Verkehr in Wiesbaden and by Mainzer VG in Mainz.

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On Thursday 7 April, users of line X1 will be able to travel with this innovative zero-emission vehicle, produced by CaetanoBus, which is loaded at Iberdrola’s green hydrogen plant.

Tomorrow Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) will put Barcelona’s first hydrogen bus into service on line X1, the semi-direct XPRESBus service that connects the city centre with the intermodal hubs of Francesc Macià and Glòries.

This is the first time that this type of renewable energy vector has been generated in Spain for commercial use and with fleet capacity, making TMB and Iberdrola pioneers in the decarbonisation of heavy urban mobility. Eight vehicles are going to be put into service.

Caetano hydrogen buses delivered

The vehicle delivered by Caetano, the H2 City Gold, arrived last December (and was purchased within JIVE 2 European programme) and has been undergoing a period of testing without passengers, which is now coming to an end. This bus, which emits only water vapour, will be supplied with green hydrogen (about 20 kilos per day) from the supply plant located in the Zona Franca industrial estate, near the depot where it will be based, promoted by TMB and owned by Iberdrola, which has been supported with a grant from the Connecting Europe Facilities for Transport programme of the European Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and Environment (CINEA).

The new zero-emission hydrogen bus manufactured by CaetanoBus for TMB is a standard bus, 12 metres long, with a lightweight aluminium body with three doors. It features Toyota fuel cell, rated at 60 kW, and five type 4 hydrogen tanks with a total capacity of 37.5 kg H2 storage.

The Siemens traction motor delivers a maximum output of 180 kW and the ELFA 2 voltage inverter, also from Siemens, manages all the engine power. The hydrogen system is complemented by the LTO-type lithium-ion technology traction batteries with a total capacity of 44 kWh, where the energy generated by the fuel cell and the regenerative braking system is stored.

Laia Bonet on TMB’s 2025 Strategic Plan

TMB President Laia Bonet said that this is “an important step in the fight against climate change that we are taking in Barcelona and at TMB” and recalled that “we are moving towards a fleet of sustainable vehicles” as set out in TMB’s 2025 Strategic Plan, which calls for the incorporation of 508 clean energy buses, of which 233 will be electric and 46 hydrogen buses.

Iberdrola’s Global Director of Green Hydrogen, Millán García-Tola, stressed that “Iberdrola welcomes TMB’s determined drive to decarbonise urban transport with the incorporation of battery-electric and now hydrogen buses, we share their vision of progress towards a renewable-powered electrified world”.

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The two million miles clocked-up equate to: 10m customer journey, a saving of 3,647 tonnes of carbon emissions from bus exhausts*, a saving of 1,609kg of nitrogen oxides, a particularly toxic pollutant**

The Caetano e.City Gold buses are the first of their type built specifically for the UK market and incorporate advanced safety features and better accessibility. They include fully flat flooring throughout, rear-view cameras, Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS), which generates artificial vehicle sounds for vulnerable road users.

Abellio London Bus Managing Director Jon Eardley said: “Walworth is the first of our depots to operate electric buses with five out of our six depots being upgraded to run zero-emissions buses by autumn 2022. This will take Abellio London’s operation of electric buses to over 15% of the fleet size. These cutting-edge electric vehicles further strengthen our position of operating one of the cleanest bus fleets in the UK. We meet the minimum emission standard of Euro VI for internal combustion engine vehicles, and more than half of our fleet of 900 buses are diesel-electric hybrid vehicles. We are committed to introducing further, best-in-class electric buses and look forward to making a significant contribution towards the Mayor of London’s vision of having a complete zero-emissions bus system in the capital by 2030.”

Caetano electric buses in Abellio London bus fleet

Abellio London Bus driver Kingsford Koi-Otto has driven the Caetano electric buses from day one, clocking up over 24,000 electric miles – the equivalent of driving to New Zealand and back. He said: “With the advanced safety features and a modern specification, these buses are even more comfortable and safe to drive. They are a step-up in terms of overall experience, and help us to ensure a comfortable and enjoyable journey for customers.”

Nuno Carvalho, Caetano UK Board Director and CCO at CaetanoBus said: “We are delighted with this achievement on the e.City Gold electric bus, proving its operation within the London bus market. We look forward to working closely with Abellio London for the next two million miles on these vehicles and on future orders.”

Louise Cheeseman, TfL’s Director of Buses, said: “On just two routes, these numbers show the huge number of people taking advantage of convenient, affordable bus travel, and just how many tonnes of harmful emissions that buses can save – making a significant contribution towards reducing the effects of climate change and helping people breathe cleaner air. 

“This demonstrates how transformative the impact will be when scaled and the entire London bus fleet is zero emission. We already have more than 800 zero-emission buses in operation across the city, but sustained Government funding is essential if we are to convert the entire network at the pace required to help tackle the climate emergency and address the capital’s toxic air crisis.”

* Calculation based on 2019 fleet average diesel bus emissions (fuel consumption only) of 1,282g per km (source: decarbon8.org.uk). Calculations also take into account carbon emissions associated with production and maintenance etc for diesel buses and carbon emissions associated with battery production and electricity generation etc for electric buses. 

** There are no NOx emissions associated with electric vehicles. The figure is calculated from the emissions factors for diesel vehicles. Over the two million miles the NOx saving is around 1,600 kg based on the following emissions factor: NOx emissions factor – 0.5 g/km.

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Following the contract signed between representatives of the public transport operator of Wiesbaden and CaetanoBus, at the beginning of the year, the city received today the first unit of 10 hydrogen buses, H2.City Gold.

Fuel cell buses in Germany

The 12-meter hydrogen-powered buses will be operated by ESWE Verkehr, the public transport operator of Wiesbaden, on the routes 16 and 17. As a mobility service provider for the state capital Wiesbaden, ESWE Verkehr pursues the goal of locally emission-free public transport. The new and emission-free fuel cell buses are an important part of the clean air plan for the state capital Wiesbaden.

The ten 2-door H2.CityGold units will be equipped with a Toyota fuel cell, a small battery pack with 44 kWh capacity and a Siemens power train with 180 kW peak power. The type IV hydrogen tanks will have a total capacity of 37.5kg to offer a drive range over 400 kilometres on a single refill. The H2.City Gold from CaetanoBus has the most advanced technology available on the market presently and offer to drivers and passengers an unique experience.

“We are very happy with the arrival of the first H2.City Gold in Wiesbaden. It’s a pleasure to have our mobility solutions chosen to be part of a sustainable and greener way of living in such an important market for us”, referred Patrícia Vasconcelos, CEO of CaetanoBus.

Caetano is thinking about the future of mobility for the last 75 years. Our purpose is to work every day to provide our customers safer and more sustainable solutions, to improve the quality of life for people and cities. Thinking ahead of our time was the greatest heritage left from our Founder. “Yesterday, as today, our vocation is the future”, Salvador F. Caetano.

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