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 delegates to meetings of the National People's Congress in Beijing.

Exports

The Yutong E12 is popular in Denmark. The city of Roskilde was the first in the country to receive Yutong buses in 2019, replacing its diesel bus fleet with 20 E12s. The cities of Copenhagen, Bergen and Odense, who all have bus services run by Keolis soon followed, with each city receiving deliveries of Yutong buses throughout 2020 and 2021. Keolis have also tested a Yutong E12 in the French city of Orléans in 2018, as part of a scheme seeking to electrify the city's bus network by 2050, while Singapore's Land Transport Authority took delivery of 20 E12s as part of an order of 60 electric single-decker buses for the city in April 2020.

In Australia, the Yutong E12 has proven popular with many bus operators around the country who opted to trial the vehicle. Nine Yutong E12s were delivered to Interline Bus Services from April 2021, and a small fleet was also delivered to Transit Systems NSW.

In Finland, 35 Yutong E12s were delivered for service in the capital Helsinki and neighbouring Kerava in 2019, while in Poland, nine E10s were delivered to the city of Polkowice in 2021, twelve E12s were delivered to the city of Łomża in 2022, and 20 E12s have been ordered by the city of Białystok.

United Kingdom

Yutong E10s and E12s, as well as other Yutong products, have been sold in the United Kingdom through the Pelican Bus dealership in Castleford since 2018, where a factory assembling complete knock-down Yutong buses and coaches will soon open. The company is also partnered with battery supplier Zenobe, who assist in installing charging infrastructure and providing new batteries for electric bus operators.

The first ten Yutong E10s ordered for the United Kingdom market entered service with Go North East in November 2020. These Yutongs were branded as ''Voltra'' buses for services on routes 53 and 54 between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, with the launch preceded by a major marketing campaign by Go North East, and were delivered with high-specification interiors and exterior LED lighting designed by Best Impressions. Go North East would subsequently take delivery of nine E12s delivered to Voltra specification for use on the QuayCity Q3 service in September 2022. Nine E10s were also delivered to First Leeds in 2020, entering service on a route serving the Halton Moor district of Leeds in October.

In Leicester, fifteen E12s were ordered by Leicester City Council, with eleven delivered to Roberts Travel Group in February 2021 for use on the city's park & ride services and the remaining four delivered to Centrebus in June 2022 for 'Hospital Hopper' services to the University Hospitals of Leicester. Centrebus would subsequently take delivery of six E10s in October 2022, the first zero-emissions buses to be delivered through a Department for Transport-funded Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme, for use on its 'Orbital' network across Leicester; a further fourteen electric buses are planned to be delivered for this service.

Nottingham City Transport have ordered twelve E12s for delivery to their Trent Bridge garage in 2023, the first of a planned 78 electric buses to replace the operator's existing single-deck fleet.

Shortly before the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scottish bus operator McGill's received 55 E12s, the biggest order so far of Yutong buses in the United Kingdom. 41 more of the type, 31 of these being E12s and the remaining ten being McGill's first short E10s, have been ordered for delivery in early 2023, which will take McGill's Yutong electric fleet to a total of 96 buses. Elsewhere in Scotland, First Aberdeen have ordered 24 Yutong E12s for delivery in 2023, which will make the First Aberdeen fleet 50% zero-emission upon delivery.

In Wales, after purchasing a demonstrator vehicle from Yutong in 2019, Newport Bus ordered 14 E12s in 2020, the first electric buses to be purchased by a Welsh bus operator, taking delivery of another five E12s and eleven E10s in 2022 and ordering 12 more E10s and E12s for delivery in 2023. E12s also entered service with Cardiff Bus in December 2021, with 36 being delivered with special branding for routes around Cardiff. An E12 from this batch was painted into a heritage livery celebrating 120 years of public transport in the Welsh capital. Eight E12s are to be delivered for electrification of the TrawsCymru T1 service serving Aberystwyth and Carmarthen in early 2023, while six E12s were delivered in 2021 for use on both the T22 service, serving Caernarfon and Blaenau Ffestiniog via Porthmadog, and the T19 service, serving Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llandudno, but have yet to enter service.

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