E-hybrids: emission-free driving in your city

Discover how e-hybrids with advanced batteries and geofencing improve urban air quality and enable emission-free driving.

What are e-hybrids?

E-hybrids are hybrid buses with extra batteries. This means as well as the first few metres, they can also cover longer distances emission-free.

E-autonomy: depending on the bus type, e-hybrids can cover between 15 and 100 km without recharging.
Flexible charging: batteries can be charged both via the charging infrastructure and while the bus is running on the EUR6 diesel engine.
Emission-free cycles: multiple emission-free journeys are possible every day, even without charging infrastructure at the depot.
Improving air quality: by prioritising e-hybrids to run emission-free in urban areas, we are improving the air quality in the places where most people live.

Geofencing allows us to define zones so that e-hybrids automatically switch between emission-free and diesel. This is done on the basis of GPS coordinates.
In particular, the 84 articulated e-hybrids with an e-autonomy of 100 km per cycle can serve both central cities and smaller urban areas emission-free.
These vehicles operate from depots in Leuven Noord, Turnhout, Destelbergen, Sint-Niklaas and Hasselt.

There are 323 e-hybrids in service