Scania agrees with Clinton Global Initiative to reduce cost of ethanol buses

Scania, the Swedish maker of biodiesel and ethanol-powered buses, agreed with the Clinton Global Initiative to make ethanol-powered buses available to the same price as biodiesel buses for 409 world cities. The buses has cost $16,000 more than the diesel versions. The 40 cities include Athens, Beijing, Chicago, London, Sao Paulo, and Sydney.

Last month, Scania announced a deal with the Brazilian government to test Scania’s ethanol-powered buses in São Paulo public transport, with service to commence in October. The project will be a cornerstone of the BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport project which started in Sweden and is now in ten cities around the world.

Scania supplies the buses for the project, which is partially financed by the European Union. The project also includes the construction of ethanol refueling stations, and is now located in Stockholm, Rotterdam, Dublin, La Spezia , Madrid, and Nanyang.

In other outcomes from the Clintom Global Initiative, the Petra group announced plans for a $136 million jatropha plantation and biodiesel refinery in the West Indies, while primate scientist Jane Goodall said that crops growing for biofuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming.

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