Next-gen E-buses from Alexander Dennis: "Tea & toast" British Liveries

Larbert, United Kingdom – 26th November 2025: Alexander Dennis, a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc., a leader in propulsion-agnostic bus and coach mobility solutions, today announced that it has applied new ‘tea and toast’ liveries to one Enviro400EV and two Enviro100EV demonstrators in celebration of British culture and bus engineering.

Double-deckers and midibuses are vehicle types and sizes that are particularly popular in British bus fleets.

By showing exactly how many cups of tea and slices of toast each bus could hypothetically make from its battery storage power, the new liveries link Alexander Dennis’s next-generation electric double-decker and midibus to another quintessentially British thing: the nation’s love for tea and toast.

The double-deck Enviro400EV powers the commute for up to 96 passengers at a time with 472kWh batteries – enough energy to brew 20,296 cups of tea, as illustrated by lots of different brews raised in celebration across the vehicle.

To go with the tea, 14,160 slices of toast could be powered by the 354kWh batteries installed in the Enviro100EV “big small bus”, which the manufacturer has decorated with mouthwatering slices of toast and jam. The Enviro100EV offers 50% more battery capacity than other buses in its class while packing up to 26 seats into a compact 8.5m length and 2.35m width.

Both have been designed by Alexander Dennis’s engineers in the UK as part of the manufacturer’s wider family of next-generation electric buses, building on decades of experience in developing buses that meet the specific requirements of British bus operators and transport authorities.

Debbie McCreath, Alexander Dennis External Affairs & Marketing Director, said: “For many Britons, Alexander Dennis buses are as essential to powering their day as the tea and toast they had for their breakfast. With our next-generation electric buses designed in the UK for the requirements of bus operation in the UK, we are proud to celebrate the wider culture of which they are a part.

“By showing just how many cups of tea and slices of toast these buses’ batteries could provide, we hope to inspire onlookers with the message that this powerful new generation of electric buses is essential to daily life – and quintessentially British.”