FLEETDRIVE announced that it would add 660 new electric buses to its current fleet. More than half of these buses are three-door single-deckers and 300 of it, double-deckers.
These new buses will be delivered over a period of 2 and half years, ending in December 2027. Once delivered, Singapore’ s overall batterypowered bus fleet will reach 1,140 vehicles, joining a public bus fleet of 5,800 vehicles.
Singapore has been gradually increasing the number of its electric buses over the recent years. Back in November 2023, the LTA acquired 360 single-deck buses from BYD and again purchased another 60 buses in October 2024.
THAILAND
Another country adopting electric buses is Thailand. The Southeast Asian Kingdom pledged that all of its public transportation vehicles will be electric by 2030. The transition started in 2023, with the country’ s fleet of airport limousines. The Asian Development Bank( ADB) loaned USD 110 million( AUD 177 million) to private company, Energy Absolute. This loan was used to purchase 1,200 electric buses manufactured within Thailand. ADB also pledged to increase the country’ s EV charger production capacity to 1,000 stations.
Before this, the Thai government conducted a pilot programme of 120 buses’ operation in Bangkok from 2021 – 2022. Thailand’ s electric bus tickets are competitively priced to entice usage. The buses are equipped with air conditioning with reduced noise emissions as well.
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