Green Buses on Track for Olympics

Construction of the first Chinese factory to build environment-friendly electric buses is under way in Yantai, a coastal city in East China’s Shandong Province, reports China Daily.

With an investment of 250mil yuan for the first phase of the project, the first bus should roll off the assembly line late next year, said Xie Rongan, chairman of the Yantai-based China-Rising Motors Tech Zone Co. Ltd. Some of the first buses will be put into operation in Beijing and Shanghai where the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Expo will take place.

Some trial buses have been traveling along a 15km route in the Fushan District since early September.