Alsa20 Dec 2023 08:08
Alsa starts the operation of six urban lines with a 100% electric fleet in Geneva
· This is the largest deployment of electric buses carried out by the Spanish company
· It has required the incorporation of 22 new zero-emission electric buses, which will prevent the emission of 1.5 million Tn of CO2 each year
Madrid/Geneva, 18 December 2023The mobility company Alsa has started operating this December in Geneva six new lines of the TPG (Transports Publics Genevois) network with a fleet composed entirely of electric buses, making it the company's largest operation with zero-emission vehicles and the first TPG urban service operator to use ZEV vehicles.
For its launch, the Spanish company has made a strong investment, both in the acquisition of 22 new state-of-the-art electric buses and four hybrid reserve buses, and in new facilities located in the industrial area of Satigny, equipped with the charging infrastructure necessary for the new electric fleet and for future growth.
These new lines were awarded by TPG in 2022, and are in addition to the two that Alsa already operated since 2018 in the Swiss city. These are lines 41, 43, 47, 48, 70 and 75, which will be used by more than three million passengers per year. Its operation with 100% zero-emission vehicles will prevent the emission into the atmosphere of 70,000 Tn of CO2 per bus per year, so the whole fleet will save more than 1.5 million Tn. of CO2 each year.
For Miguel Pérez-Juez, Director General of International and M&A of Alsa, the start of this new contract "has been a huge challenge and manages to position ourselves as one of the main private operators of Geneva and at the forefront in terms of sustainable mobility. Thanks to our excellent local team and the know-how we are acquiring in the ZEV fleet operation in a network as innovative as TPG, we will be able to face with guarantees new international growth projects that the company has, both in Switzerland and in neighbouring countries."
Since its inception in 2016, the presence and activity of Alsa in the Swiss country has had a significant increase, reaching 200 vehicles and more than 300 employees next year. In these years it has created a mobility hub with a diversified portfolio of services that operates, in addition to urban transport, alpine transfers; school transport; tourist and discretionary; as well as international lines from Switzerland to Spain and other European countries
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