SOLUTIONSplus
SOLUTIONSplus co-developed innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions for urban passenger and freight transport in participatory Living Labs in different parts of the world. ElectriCity partners contributed to the project by sharing insights from the large-scale introduction of electric buses in the Gothenburg region.
SOLUTIONSplus co-developed innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions for urban passenger and freight transport in participatory Living Labs in Hanoi (Vietnam), Pasig (Philippines), Lalitpur/Kathmandu (Nepal), Kigali (Rwanda), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Quito (Ecuador), Montevideo (Uruguay), Madrid (Spain), Nanjing (China) and Hamburg (Germany). Local authorities, industry, research and implementing partners established a global platform for shared, public and commercial e-mobility solutions to foster the transition towards low-carbon urban mobility.
The project addressed major urban mobility issues by demonstrating the viability of electric mobility solutions, improving operational efficiency, and integrating various types of e-mobility across diverse urban landscapes across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Over 20 scale-up and replication projects have been initiated as a result of these demonstrations, taking forward SOLUTIONSplus’s learnings towards transformative implementation action.
ElectriCity contributed to the project by sharing insights from the transformation that the public transport sector has made in the Gothenburg region, where a majority of the buses in city traffic are battery-electric. The transition to electric buses began within the ElectriCity collaboration, where key actors began testing electric buses in regular traffic in 2013. After successful and extended tests, 145 electric buses were introduced overnight in December 2020. After that, the transition to electric buses has continued.
In the film below, representatives from the regional public transport authority Västtrafik, the public transport operators Transdev, Keolis and Nobina, the City of Gothenburg and Volvo Buses share their insights from implementing e-buses on a majority of the bus routes in the Gothenburg region.
The project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
