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   Olev (through Australian Electric Infrastructure Transport (AEIT) with an office located in
   Brisbane, Queensland. AEIT is a Brisbane based company recently established in 2012
   to commercialise the Olev electric vehicles in Australia) (Rank=3)
A summary of the MCA results is shown in Table 7.
Table 7         MCA of Electric Bus Manufacturers

          Vehicle          Battery            Charging      Cost     Cost      Cost of         After      Weight
          Performan        Performan          Infrastruct   s of     s of      Charging        Sales      ed
          ce               ce                 ure           EB       EB        Infrastruct     Supp       MCA
                                              Deployme      Cap      Ope       ure             ort        Score
                                              nt            ex       x
Optar     4                4                  3             3        1         2               4          3.25
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BYD       1                2                  3             4        1         4               3          2.80
Olev      3                1                  1             2        1         3               3          2.05
Solar     1                3                  3             1        1         4               1          1.90
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Note: Rank of 1 lowest score, Rank of 4 highest score. Ranking is on a 1 to 4 scale with a higher overall weighted
score indicative of a preferred technology.


4.5.2         Selection of electric bus manufacturers

A Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) approach has been used to inform the selection of the
preferred electric bus manufacturer. A ranking system with a rank of 1 lowest score and rank
of 4 highest score was adopted. Ranking is on a 1 to 4 scale with a higher overall weighted
score indicative of a preferred technology.
The results showed that Optare scored highest with a weighted score of 3.25, followed by
BYD with a weighted score of 2.80 and Olev with a weighted score of 2.05. Solaris scored
the lowest at 1.90. The technology employed by Olev (i.e. wireless road-embedded
charging) is new technology which still has to be proven in terms of performance and will be
cost prohibitive to implement for the trial (i.e. multiple road-embedded charging stations will
be required en-route to fast charge the battery) and was discounted.
The MCA results were presented at a workshop with Council/TransLink on the 18 September
2014 and it was decided that the top two (2) manufacturers (i.e. Optare and BYD) would be
invited through an expression of interest (EOI) to participate in a 6 month trial. More detailed
information was gathered through the EOI process to select a preferred manufacturer.




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