Volvo Buses with NTU Singapore · self-driving bus or shuttle
7900 Electric autonomous bus
A 12 m Volvo 7900 Electric city bus fitted with lidar, stereo cameras and satellite positioning, with self-driving software from NTU. It carried about 80 to 85 passengers depending on the source.
- Price
- —Price not published
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- 2Reported; details below
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Presented by Volvo and NTU as the first full-size (12 m) autonomous electric bus.
Real-world use
Two buses were tested at Singapore's CETRAN test centre and NTU campus; by 2022 they had shown Level 3 driving per Land Transport Guru.
Maker
Volvo Buses with NTU SingaporeCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Singapore (NTU campus, CETRAN test centre)
- Fleet
- 2 buses (Land Transport Guru)
Public attention
How much public attention 7900 Electric autonomous bus gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
- about 2 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
7900 Electric autonomous bus is the only vehicle from Volvo Buses with NTU Singapore in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPrice not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | 7900 Electric autonomous busVolvo Buses with NTU Singapore |  Citywide LF electric autonomous busScania with NobinaSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both research platforms |  Erga Mio autonomous mid-size busIsuzu with AIST and Nippon KoeiSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both research platforms |  Hino Poncho Long autonomous busNippon Mobility (on Hino Poncho Long)Same job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both research platforms |
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| First shown | 2019-03-05 | 2019-02 | 2020-07 | 2022-01-08 |
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Sources
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