Agência Brasil*
São Paulo – The ethanol-fuelled bus, manufactured in Brazil by means of international programme Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport, was presented today (20th) at Metropolitan Terminal São Bernardo by the project coordinator, José Roberto Moreira, who is also president at the Managing Board of the National Centre for Reference in Biomass (Cenbio).
The bus, which should enter into test-phase circulation tomorrow (21st), will travel the inter-municipal line linking the Greater São Paulo region to the Jabaquara neighbourhood, in the south of the city, as part of the fleet of Sistema Metropolitano de Transporte (Metra –Metropolitan Transport System).
According to the University of São Paulo (USP), where technological research for the project was conducted, the test phase should last one year. During the period, technicians will evaluate performance by comparing it with the diesel-fuelled model. The project cost 1.6 million reals (US$ 887.9 million).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
