Janus have designed the adaption of the existing depot to accept 120 EV Buses with an overhead gantry charging solution. Working in conjunction with First Bus, the installation supplies power to Yutong single and double decker buses.

The five double span gantries have been designed to step with the change in level, maintaining the required headroom for clear double decker bus movement underneath and reducing the length of the charging cable. The design also provides additional benefits of keeping the yard free from “ground mounted charger” obstructions, maintaining driver car parking capacities, and allowing for bus driver training functions as well as a range of B2X charging solutions for other vehicles including HGV and Coaches.

The innovative gantry installation utilises Heliox Flex 180 chargers at ground level, feeding electrically operated reels suspended above each bus at high level. The reels provide remote lowering of power leads adjacent to the charging port of each bus, reducing trailing cables and intermediate islands. The chargers are in located the “dead” spatial zones in line with the existing building columns.

There were further ground mounted chargers located around the perimeter of the site also utilising Heliox Flex 180 unit, and 6No. 360KWH chargers are located on the site to provided ultra-fast charging.