Building a green fleet
Swedish bus maker is looking to cut emissions from Thai public buses but certain rules need to be sorted out first.
- Published: 16/01/2012 at 02:46 AM
- Newspaper section: Business
With the transport sector responsible for more than 70% of the oil used in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, Sweden is turning more to ethanol buses, with 750 of them now plying the streets of the capital.
Scania buses from Sweden, running on ED95 fuel, have started trial runs in Bangkok.
Stockholm had its first biofuel bus, which cut up to 90% of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel, in 1989.
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About the author
- Writer: Nanchanok Wongsamuth
- Position: News Reporter
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