(Business in Cameroon) - On September 30, 2014, the Bolloré Africa Logistics group held an open house day on the campus of Université de Yaoundé I. This was revealed in a release issued by the industrial group. This open house day to introduce the electrical bus system (Blue Bus) launched on the school’s campus coincided with Ecole nationale supérieure polytechnique of Yaoundé’s “Engineer Week”.

The polytechnicians also learned about “the LMP battery developed by Bolloré group which enables a plethora of environment-friendly urban transportation services” and “were thus able to learn about how this innovative technology works” going from “the capturing of solar energy to setting the LMP batteries on the bus, the stocking of the energy and charging the batteries.”

“We already had to study solar energy at school so we know the basic principles. But I really enjoyed being able to see solar energy being used in a concrete way in Cameroon,” stated Arielle Nyebele, a final year student majoring in mechanical engineering at Polytech.

On May 2, the Bolloré group officially inaugurated two electric buses on the campus of Université de Yaoundé I, the first electric buses ever to be used in Cameroon, to facilitate student transportation. To date, over 200, 000 passengers have taken the Blues bus on the campus of the mother of all Cameroonian universities.