Switch EiV 22

The Switch EiV 22 is an electric double-decker bus that Switch Mobility unveiled in August 2022 for the Indian market. The air-conditioned bus was designed, developed and manufactured in India, and it is built on a 650 V architecture and the same platform as the single-deck Switch EiV 12 that the company had launched two months earlier. Its battery pack holds 231 kWh, uses NMC chemistry with liquid cooling and a dual-gun charging system, and gives a stated range of up to 250 km. Switch says the bus carries 65 passengers, nearly twice the seated capacity of a comparable single-decker, for an 18 percent increase in kerb weight. An order for 200 of the buses had already been secured in Mumbai when it was unveiled. Company chairman Dheeraj Hinduja described it as bringing back the double-decker to India, recalling that Ashok Leyland launched the first Indian double-decker in Mumbai in 1967.