South Korea's Hyundai Motor exports ”non-polluting electric bus” to Japan for the first time

South Korea's Hyundai Motor announced on the 23rd that it has begun to expand into the local electrification market in Japan with its commercial vehicle division, including by starting full-scale supply of non-polluting ECO buses to famous Japanese tourist destinations.
Hyundai Motor signed a memorandum of understanding with Iwasaki Group on the supply of the non-polluting electric bus "ELEC CITY TOWN" at a hotel in Tokyo on the 18th of this month. ELEC CITY
The TOWN is the first electric bus that Hyundai Motor will unveil in Japan. Hyundai Motor has signed a memorandum of understanding to sell the ELEC bus in the fourth quarter of this year (October to December).
The company plans to supply one CITY TOWN and a total of five units by the first quarter of next year (January to March).
Currently, Chinese-made electric buses are also available for sale, but we have decided to choose Hyundai's electric buses, which have the highest quality and reliability. "From now on, all vehicles operating on Yakushima will be electric vehicles (EVs)," the company said.
"We plan to replace it with the ELEC CITY TOWN," he said. The Iwasaki Group plans to operate the ELEC CITY TOWN, which it will purchase from Hyundai, as a route bus on Yakushima Island.