The Yutong TCe12, sold as the Yutong ICe12 in continental Europe, is a battery electric

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manufactured by Yutong in

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since 2017 for international bus and coach operators. It is based on the same technology used in the

Yutong E10 The Yutong E10, also sold as the longer Yutong E12, is a battery electric single-decker bus manufactured by Yutong in Zhengzhou since 2016 for both Chinese and international bus operators. The Yutong E10 debuted in China in 2016, transporting ...

battery-electric single-deck bus, having a maximum

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of 200 miles, and can be configured as a

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Operators

Yutong ICe12s have proved particularly popular with French bus and coach operators. The first export order, consisting of 12 ICe12s intended for school services in

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was received by SAVAC in October 2017, followed by two ICe12s being delivered to the French arm of European inter-city coaching firm Flixbus for services connecting Paris and

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in April 2018. In the

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region, ten ICe12s entered service at

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depots in the region in August 2019 for use on ''Zou!'' coach services connecting

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and

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. Elsewhere, four were delivered for Transdev services in

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connecting the communes of Bergerac and

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, and examples were delivered to PNA Aérial, Transdev Darche-Gros, RGE Mobilité and Autocars Vincent Bobet. Elsewhere in continental Europe, Yutong ICe12s have been delivered to Luxembourgish operator Voyages Emile Weber for school transport in

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and to Italian operator Martini Bus for a shuttle service between

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's airport and railway stations, while in Poland, the rural

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s of Śniadowo, Ojrzeń and Ożarów Mazowiecki have each taken delivery of ICe12s for school transport between villages, with a fourth ICe12 on order for Gmina Jawornik Polski. In the United Kingdom, deliveries for Yutong TCe12s commenced with the delivery of two TCe12s to Westway Coach Services in 2019; the operator would subsequently take delivery of two more in 2019 and 2021. Ember Core, the largest operator of TCe12s in the United Kingdom, purchased their first two TCe12s for use on the UK's first zero-emissions intercity service serving

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and

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in 2020, subsequently purchasing four more for delivery in 2021 and 2022 and planning to operate a total of 38 zero-emissions coaches across Scotland. Four TCe12s are due to be delivered to Welsh municipal

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's coaching fleet in March 2023. Smaller orders for TCe12s in the United Kingdom have been delivered to or ordered by operators such as London sightseeing operator Evan Evans Tours, Turners Coachways of

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, Wattsway Travel, Coatham Coaches, Swans Travel and Bennetts of Gloucestershire, who have taken a single demonstrator model from UK Yutong supplier Pelican Bus & Coach. Six coach operators partnered with smart bus platform Zeelo - Hearn's Coaches, Landflight Travel Services, Marret's Chariots, Wilfreda Beehive and two others - are to trial TCe12s for a month each in 2023; TCe12s are already in service with Zeelo-partnered AirSym of

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, with one providing school transport to the Dwight School London. New Zealand operator Mahu City Express took delivery of a single Yutong TCe12 in 2021, which is used on services connecting the Auckland CBD with Warkworth and Snells Beach.

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