The Pamplona Regional Urban Transport fleet will have a new 100% electric bus, to which ten more vehicles will be added in the first months of 2024.
The new vehicle is expected to provide full daytime service on line L3 (Circular west: center – Ansoáin). With the retirement of the oldest vehicle, the TUC fleet will maintain 159 vehicles and the average age will be 7.09 years. With its incorporation, Regional Urban Transport has 66 hybrid diesel-electric vehicles, 7 electric and 19 powered by gas from renewable sources, representing 58% of the fleet.
The vehicle has been presented in the Customs Corner, in front of the new headquarters of the Commonwealth of the Region of Pamplona MCP, in an act in which the president of the entity, David Campión, together with the general director of Transport and Sustainable Mobility of the Government of Navarra, Berta Miranda, and the general director of Moventis, Juan Giménez.
Campión has highlighted that the incorporation of this vehicle opens a “new era, which is that of fully charged electric buses in the depot”. “These are buses that can be working throughout the day without having to stop to load facilities along the way”, he stated.
The president of the Commonwealth has highlighted the commitment of the MCP to acquire new buses that run on biogas or electric, allowing them to “emit much less particles in the city.” He has also stressed that these energies “may be generated in the very near future within the region itself. The gas from the sludge from the Arazuri treatment plant and the waste treated at the Imárcoain waste treatment center -which work has already begun-, and the electric power both with the Commonwealth’s hydroelectric plants and with a deployment of photovoltaic panels” included in the entity’s strategy.
Juan Giménez, for his part, has highlighted that 2023 has been a “record year” for the Villavesas, surpassing the record for travelers transported in one day -on July 8-, as well as the number of travelers during the San Fermín festivities -1,939,000-. And he has hoped to surpass, too, the historical record of travelers of 2019, set at 40.6 million and to be above 42 million.
Berta Miranda has transferred the commitment of the Government of Navarra for sustainable mobility. “The effects of climate change are becoming more noticeable, which is why citizens are demanding concrete and determined actions from the public authorities for the protection of the environment” and the acquisition of electric buses “goes in that direction,” Miranda pointed out.
The new bus is an ‘Irizar ieTRAM 12’ model, 12 meters long. The vehicle has a tram-style design, is equipped with the latest generation Irizar 430 kWh batteries and equipped with motors with a maximum traction power of 240 kW. The charging power is 100 kW and charging takes less than 5 hours. The bus has an on-board energy capacity that guarantees a minimum service provision of 16.5 hours.
The vehicle has a capacity for 80 people, has three sliding train-type doors, 26 seats (4 of them for people with reduced mobility), two areas for wheelchairs and trolleys, and a double access ramp for wheelchairs (electric + manual).
To charge the new buses, ten 180 kW rectifying charging equipment has been installed in the TUC depot, which feeds 10 double-output dispensers that each allow the simultaneous charging of two buses: 90 kW each or just one at the maximum load allowed by the vehicle (up to 180 kW).
To feed this equipment, a 13.2 kV medium voltage line has been set up from the existing transformation center in the garage field to a new 2,500 kVA transformation center installed inside the warehouse next to the rectifiers. .
The facility has a Bia Could platform, which allows vehicle charging to be managed by monitoring in real time and managing the charging process remotely, intelligently and using machine learning technologies.
The acquisition of the new vehicles has been made thanks to European funds aimed at the sustainable transformation of Urban Transport for which the Commonwealth of the Region of Pamplona has received 4.9 million from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA). of euros. The MCP proposal included the acquisition of 20 12-meter electric buses (aid of 4 million euros) and the installation of 20 slow charging points of 90 kw each and adaptation of garages for that purpose (aid of 910,580 euros). .
Specifically, the price of each vehicle is 498,000 euros and the MITMA subsidy within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan amounts to 200,000 euros per vehicle. As regards the electrical charging network, the drafting of the project, supply and installation of 20 charging points and the necessary infrastructure in depots was awarded to Iberdrola for 811,232.96 euros. The MITMA grant has covered 90% of that cost.
Between 2022 and June of this year, the MCP has incorporated 19 hybrid buses with a gas-electric engine, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) with a Guarantee of Renewable Origin (GdO), to which the 20 new 100% electric buses will soon be added. .
2023-09-07 12:21:23
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