Shenzhen Bus Group Co., Ltd (SBG) () is a
Chinese state-owned company that offers bus passenger transportation services in
Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
. In 2017, it made international news as the world's first fully
electric bus
An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors as opposed to an internal combustion engine. Electric buses can store the needed electricity on-board, or be fed continuously from an external source. The majority of buses ...
fleet.
History
SBG was founded in 1975 and was wholly controlled by
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shenzhen.
In 2005,
Kowloon Motor Bus
The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong. It is the largest bus company in Hong Kong by fleet size and number of bus routes. It is a subsidiary of Transport International.
...
invested around 390 million
CNY (47 million USD) to subscribe a 35% stake of the company, which was then re-registered as Shenzhen Bus Group Co., Ltd.
Operation
In 2017, SBG retired all of its diesel buses and started operating a fleet of 5698 pure
electric bus
An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors as opposed to an internal combustion engine. Electric buses can store the needed electricity on-board, or be fed continuously from an external source. The majority of buses ...
es on 352 routes in Shenzhen, making it the world's first fully electric bus fleet. It completed around 800 million passenger journeys among the total number of 1.6 billion in Shenzhen in 2018.
See also
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Transport in Shenzhen
Shenzhen has an extensive transport network, including various forms of land, water and air transport.
Rail transport National railway
Started with an intermediate station on the Kowloon–Canton Railway (Now Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway) i ...
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List of bus routes in Shenzhen
References
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External links
Official Website Transport in Shenzhen
Bus operating companies of China
Transit authorities with electric buses
Chinese companies established in 1975
Transport companies established in 1975