Bus system 2027

BVB plans to convert its entire bus fleet to battery-electric buses (e-buses) by 2027, making the fleet more environmentally friendly and quieter than today’s buses. In this way, we are implementing the legal requirement that all public transport in the canton of Basel-Stadt must run on 100 percent renewable energy from 2027.

With the commissioning of the first fully battery-powered electric articulated bus in February 2019, we have laid the foundation for an electric future in the bus sector. In November 2022, we received the first of 65 e-buses, all of which have been put into operation by the end of 2023.

The conversion to e-buses is complex and involves not only the procurement of e-buses but also extensive adjustments to the infrastructure.

The final milestones on the way to the 2027 bus system:

 February 2025 Start of construction work on the new Rank garage (press release dated 1/28/2025)
 October 2024 Demolition of the Rank garage is complete.
 10 June 2024 Start of demolition of the existing Rank garage (press release dated 6/4/2024)
19 December 2023 The last four gas articulated buses are phased out. Half of our bus fleet now consists of e-buses.
14 November 2023   Line 30 is converted to electric operation
23 October 2023   Commissioning of the provisional facility “exhibition hall 3” and conversion of line 36 to electric operation
4 September 2023 The first articulated electric buses enter passenger service (eCitaro G)
27 June 2023 Delivery of the first articulated e-buses (eCitaro G, Video)
16 January 2023 Start of passenger service of the first electric double-articulated buses on line 50 (lighTram, Video)
2019 – 2022

19 December 2022 Start passenger service first E-normal buses (eCitaro, Video) and commissioning of the Klybeck provisional facility
8 November 2022 Delivery of the first electric double-articulated bus (lighTram, Video)
4 November 2022      Delivery of the first e-standard bus (eCitaro, Video)
Spring 2022 Construction work has begun on adjustments to the bus stop infrastructure on Line 50 for the use of the electric double-articulated buses and at two stops with occasional charging stations.
November 2021 Construction work has begun on the Klybeck and Messehalle 3 temporary facilities.
September 2021 BVB and HESS sign the contract for the procurement of eight E-double-articulated buses (Media release from 9/2/2021). The contract with EvoBus (Schweiz) AG for the procurement of 57 E-normal and E-articulated buses will also be signed in September 2021.
May 2021 BVB decides to procure e-buses from Hess and EvoBus. They are scheduled to go into operation between fall 2022 and spring 2023 (Media relase from 5/18/2021).
April 2021 Following a public tender, BVB awards the contracts for the owner’s representative and the general planner for the new Garage Rank.
December 2020 The Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt approves the loan request for the bus system in the amount of approximately 360 million Swiss francs (Media release from 12/9/2020).
September 2020   The government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt refers the council proposal for financing the 2027 bus system to the Grand Council. BVB launches public tender for 62 E-buses and planning services for the new construction of the Rank garage (Media release from 9/17/2020).
February 2019 The “Stromnibus”, the first electric articulated bus in BVB history, goes into a one-year test run (Media release from 2/7/2019).

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The next steps on the way to the 2027 bus system:

2025 Public tender for the procurement of a further 61 e-buses
2027 Commissioning of new Rank garage and 61 additional e-buses

The entire bus system explained in three minutes:

This is what the new e-buses look like:

 

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