Sustainability

Speaking at the CV Summit, Per Aleby, Director – Buses and Coaches, Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt Ltd., expressed the need to look at alternate fuels. He drew attention to the rising use of biofuels while explaining that the key to reduce reliance on oil lies there. Giving the example of Stockholm where half of the city buses run on biogas, Aleby said that it was possible to achieve Euro 6 standards right away with the use of biofuels. “India could thus leapfrog to a higher fuel standard if it wanted to,” he added. About the need for an additive to ignite the biofuel, ED95 that Scania uses in its ethanol-powered city bus at Nagpur, Aleby informed that it was being produced locally at Nagpur. The number of ethanol buses at Nagpur, he revealed,