It's the Wrightbus demo that was at the 2017 Bus and Coach show.

http://busaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic ... s#p1028077

Cheers,
Mitch

https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-new ... loor-order
One now wonders whether these are Low Floor or simply Low Entry

Bus Suggestions wrote:https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-new ... loor-order
One now wonders whether these are Low Floor or simply Low Entry

Low Entry.
See: http://man.com.au/le-19-320-rc2/

It’s good to see that the Australian bus manufacturing industry is still going strong with thanks to Skybus and other operators.

Cheers,
Mitch

Latrobe Valley to launch the first of its new hybrid fleet in Moe today:

https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-new ... ssie-first

A couple of photos from yesterdays Latrobe Valley Bus lines hybrid launch (first photo from LVBL, second two from Australian Bus and Coach):

From left: Hakan Agnevall, President of Volvo; Rhonda Renwick, Managing Director of LVBL; Stephen Ryan, Director Regional Bus of PTV; Anna Tyben, General Manager of LVBL


Note the roof-mounted equipment (batteries, compressor, radiator intake):


Low-floor aisle all the way to the back two rows:

A second Volvo low-floor hybrid delivered to Latrobe Valley Bus Lines: