Tender floated for adding 3,980 more electric buses to Delhi’s fleet
New Delhi The process to add 3,980 electric buses to Delhi’s existing fleet has been kicked off, with a tender floated to procure 5,690 electric buses for the national capital and four other states.
Last year, the Delhi government had decided that it will only procure electric buses, as it aims to eventually phase out internal combustion engines from its fleet in a bid to control the Capital’s pollution levels, to which vehicular emissions are a significant contributor. DTC has already added 250 e-buses to its fleet of around 7,200 buses.
Delhi has subscribed to the National Electric Bus Program (NEBP) — which seeks to aggregate demands from bus transport agencies and conduct tendering on an aggregated basis — to induct electric buses too its fleet and recently submitted a proposal for 3,980 electric buses.
