Bollore to offer 3rd electric bus to Yaounde 1 Uni

Received in audience by the Prime Minister of Cameroon, Philémon Yang, 27th January 2015 in Yaoundé, Bolloré Africa Logistics officials announced that this industrial group which controls several companies in the sector of transport and logistics in Cameroon, will soon offer at the University of Yaoundé I, a third bus that runs on solar energy.

This new gift of the Bolloré Group is expected to enhance the transport system of the mother universities in Cameroon. The two first electrical buses offered to this academic institution was in may 2014 by Bolloré Africa Logistics, which opened the first line of electric buses in Central Africa.

The transport system which "already carried almost 540,000 passengers with an average of 2,000 students transported daily between May 8, 2014 and on 26 January 2015, has made more than 6,600 rotations.

These electric buses which is part of the Blue Bus that Bollore Africa Logistics donated to the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, are the benefits of the Bolloré Blue Solutions project led for years by this French industrial group, and who helped to design the first battery capable of storing electrical energy ((batterie LMP, entendez Lithium Métal Polymère).

Indeed, thanks to solar 228 field photovoltaic panels, built on the campus of the University of Yaoundé I, solar energy is captured and then transferred into a kind of transformer from which the bus containing the LMP battery charges (exactly as re-charging the battery of a cell phone from a power outlet) every night (after the stop of the shuttle) for 8 hours, allowing them to transport students throughout the next day.