Tide orders 600 new buses, Volvo will deliver half of them.

2019 will be historic for Tide in the way that we have never received more than 600 new buses in less than one year. Of these 600 buses, Volvo will deliver 300 of them. The other buses will be delivered from the manufacturers MAN, Scania, Iveco, Van Hool and Heuliez, says CEO Tide, Roger Harkestad.

Roger Harkestad, CEO Tide

The order for 300 new buses from Volvo is the largest order so far Volvo has received in Norway. There are 290 intercity buses of the Volvo 8900 model, seven Volvo 9700 express buses and three minibuses.  

We are very pleased with the good cooperation we have with Tide Buss, and we have also entered into an agreement where the buses are delivered with a service contract, which means that Volvo takes care of the maintenance of the buses for a fixed monthly sum, ”says Svenn Åge Løkken, marketing director Volvo Busser in Norway.

Svenn Åge Løkken, Volvo

In the autumn of 2017, Tide Buss also purchased 25 electric buses of the Volvo 7900 Electric type, which will operate when Trondheim starts with electric buses in August 2019.

The 600 buses will be seen on the roads both in Bergen and Tromsø during 2019.  

The technological development of both cars and buses goes fast. Therefore, we are delighted that the new buses in Tromsø are, among other things, made with a solution that makes the bus automatically lowers speeds and maintains a maximum limit of for example 30 km / h when approaching such a zone. Typically in densely populated areas, such as outside a school, Harkestad tells.  

He adds that all of the 600 new buses will go on fuel that is environmentally friendly and sustainable. This is about biodiesel, biogas and electricity produced from renewable sources.   

Bergen, 29 October 2018