An electric bus caught fire in Moscow. This is the third case in a month.

According to “Russian Avtomobil”, referring to the Department of Transport and Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of the city of Moscow, yesterday, October 18, on the capital’s Dmitrovskoe highway, the KamAZ-6282 electric bus caught fire.

The barbecue season continues in Moscow: today at half past three, the third electric bus in the past month has caught fire. Again Dmitrovka, again the former 7th bus fleet, again KAMAZ-6282. Deptrans assures that it went to the park without passengers.

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An electric bus caught fire in Moscow.  This is the third case in a month.

The source adds that before that, the electric bus in Moscow had not caught fire, but recently several similar cases have been recorded at once. The first case was recorded on September 20, then the cause was a short circuit. As a result, she received serious damage and was written off. At the end of September, the compressor filter of the second KamAZ-6282 caught fire.

The active operation of electric passenger cars produced by KamAZ and GAZ began in Moscow in 2018, and in three years they replaced obsolete trolleybuses. Today there are more than 600 electric buses in the capital’s vehicle fleet.

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