Electric Transport Systems – DANCER BUS

Average age of public transport’s fleet in Lithuania is quite high. Although a part of the fleets in largest Lithuanian cities (Vilnius and Kaunas) consists from electric powered trolley buses, a public transport in Lithuania is mostly powered by fossil fuels which is costly and causes heavy pollution. Therefore a collaborative initiative between scientists, major energy operators in Baltic States and universities in Kaunas in Klaipeda emerged as a partnership called “Vėjo projektai”.
Its idea was to develop a new generation city bus, called “DANCER Bus”. DANCER Bus is a visionary approach to automotive industry, which seeks to integrate original bus design concept, new technological materials and renewable energy in the public transport sphere. Dancer’s primarily intention is to make sustainability in public transport fleets an integral part of the city and society. Generally, it is a project, where technology, art, industry and society meet and unite in order to improve the urban environment.
The creation of a new generation super lightweight electric city bus is an absolutely new bus prototype. This includes the creation of a new bus body using composite materials, integration of a more advanced powertrain system with engines in the wheels, and adjusting modern media technologies in creating fully developed interactive exterior of the bus.