Abstract:

The city of São Paulo has set out to improve the environmental performance of its transport system. The city has committed to include 2,600 electric buses in its fleet by 2024. A pilot project launched by SPTrans in partnership with BYD placed 18 battery electric buses in the fleet, which have been operated by Transwolff since 2019. The results of the pilot project are a helpful guide for the next steps in the city’s technological transition. This report analyzes the performance of two electric buses in the pilot project fleet, monitored throughout 2021, considering operating data and energy consumption. The analyses presented seek to characterize the performance of buses over time under different operating conditions, but do not establish cause-and-effect relationships between the variables, nor do they quantify the impact of each one.