After more than a month, Senae releases 14 electric trolleybuses for Quito, but will not start operations on Monday

Fourteen electric trolleybuses will be in Quito next week, once the Ecuador National Customs Service (Senae) released them, according to the capital city in a statement. They were held since February 22.

The city of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg wants to electrify its bus network completely, the existing trolleybus network is to be extended by individual sections of the overhead line and thus all urban bus lines are operated purely electrically by battery trolleybuses. They charge their batteries – the smaller ones ...The post decision was made: Esslingen procures trolleybuses from Škoda first appeared on Urban Transport Magazine.

"Las y los Quitoños recover the 14 trolleybuses unjustifiably detained!" wrote Quito Mayor Pabel Muñoz in his X account, after confirming the 'liberation' of the electric units. The announcement was made on Saturday, March 29, 2025. The Aduna entry ‘libera’ the 14 trolleybuses that the Municipality of Quito claimed were held was first published in Teleamazonas.

The controversy began, when the councilman Adrian Ibarra denounced that 14 electric trolleybuses, for Quito, were “inexplicably retained” in the Customs. The post Customs of Ecuador authorizes the departure of 14 trolleybuses that were held after legal proceedings appeared first on El Diario Ecuador.

The controversy between the two institutions, which began on March 20, would end with the decision of Customs. Customs entry ‘libera’ the 14 electric trolleybuses that the Municipality of Quito said were being held was first published in NOTIMUNDO.