CHILE: BYD has signed a contract to supply 100 K9FE electric buses to Santiago public transport operator Transantiago, the manufacturer announced on July 3.
The buses are being supplied in collaboration with energy distributor ENEL and are due to begin arriving in late November. ENEL and BYD had already introduced two battery electric buses to Santiago in November 2017.
According to BYD, the electric buses can reduce operating costs by as much as 70% compared with diesel vehicles.
CHILE: SICE and software partner GMV are supplying a total of 80 standard and 150 compact customised ticket vending machines for Santiago metro Line 6 which opened last November and the future Line 3 which is scheduled to open at the end of this year. The TVMs are being used ...
CHILE: President Michelle Bachelet opened the first driverless metro line in Santiago on November 2. Line 6 links Cerrillos to Los Leones on a 15·3 km underground alignment, serving 10 stations. Interchanges are provided with metro lines 1, 2 and 5, as well as the future Line 3 and ...
