{"id":18607,"date":"2023-05-19T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=18607"},"modified":"2023-05-17T21:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T02:16:56","slug":"17-yutong-electric-trolleybuses-arrive-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/17-yutong-electric-trolleybuses-arrive-in-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Yutong Electric Trolleybuses Arrive in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Mexico City<\/strong> receives another important milestone in its race for the electrification of public transport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The capital received 17 new high-tech trolleybuses manufactured in China by the company Yutong<\/strong>, which will operate with an electronic payment system and will be incorporated in the following days to the Electric Transport Service<\/strong> (STE) of the Mexican capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chief of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo<\/strong>, explained that, with the commissioning of these 17 new trolleybuses, the country’s capital already has 337 100% non-polluting electric units,<\/strong> and by the end of the administration, in 2024, there will be 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accompanied by her cabinet, as well as Yutong<\/strong>‘s Commercial Director for Mexico in the Americas Zone, Ren Wenhui<\/strong>, she explained that all these trolleybuses have been purchased by real estate developers who invest in non-polluting public transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Together with the ones we have acquired, the trolleybuses that are being acquired for the continuation of the elevated trolleybus that goes to Chalco, which are more than 100, and another 60 trolleybuses also from the concessioned system, in total we are going to fulfill the commitment we made to have 500 trolleybuses operating in Mexico City<\/strong>,” said the local governor during the presentation ceremony of the 17 vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n