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Orders and Trials

2010s

In the

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made a purchase of 128 buses in November 2018 with them to be fully in service by 2020.

2020s

In the

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announced in September 2021 they were trialling an electric airport bus to ferry passengers from the gates to the aircraft on the apron field. The vehicle being trialled is claimed by the company to have a capacity of 110 passengers. Later in November 2021,

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trialled the eCOBUS at their airport, initially deployed to assist moving delegates and support staff during the COP26 summit. More electric bus trials were announced in August 2022 when

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partnered with Stansted to trial the company's electric powered COBUS 2700 with a maximum capacity of 88 passengers. A year later in September 2022, Cobus announced the launch of the electric-powered Vega at the GSE Expo Europe in

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, France, with a maximum width of 3 and passenger doors on both sides of the bus, as well as its fuel cell Hydra bus, with a range of 400 kilometres. In May 2023, The Aruba Airport Authority in

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made a purchase of an electric powered COBUS 3000.

Products

* COBUS 3000 * COBUS 2700S (diesel) * eCOBUS (electric) * COBUS Vega (electric) * COBUS Hydra (fuel cell)

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