Comment by MisterTea
3 months ago
Whats sad is Norway sits right next to the country which manufactures Scania and Volvo Busses, but instead buys busses from thousands of km away. I suppose cost is all that maters these days, even for national infrastructure which must remain in control and secure.
What is even more sad is that not even Swedish regions buy Scania or Volvo busses. Where I live the region just replaced all local busses with BYD.
Are they making fully electric buses there? Do they have capacity to manufacture thousands of buses annually?
Not if they have to compete with China on price, they won't
Surprised to learn that Volvo manufactures buses in Sweden considering they're 78% owned by a Chinese conglomerate..
Volvo cars was sold to Geely but Volvo Buses (+ trucks) is still a Swedish company.
I think that's Volvo Cars that the main Volvo sold off to Ford and ended up with Geeky.
Trucks and busses remain with the parent Volvo AB.
China is a decade ahead of Scania/Volvo in electric busses. Likely neither had a suitable product on the market when the busses were purchased.
Tide will receive Scania buses next summer (according to plan); https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/18623524/elektris...
I know for a fact that at least one of those companies also installs SIM cards in all their busses.
The only difference is who could potentially use the backdoor, and yes Sweden seems slightly less poised to attack Norway than China. At least these days. Because, let's face it, the Swedes owned Norway back in the day and them wanting their oil-rich lucky cousin back at home is deranged but not as much as the Chinese wanting the fjords....