As Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot along with Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday flagged off 320 new electric buses, the national capital registered a fresh record. The capital now tops the Indian cities with the most number of electric buses at 1,970. Delhi has the second-largest fleet of electric buses in the world. With 2,267 electric buses, Santiago, Chile, has the largest fleet, said officials. By 2025, officials added, the national capital aims to have a total of 10,480 buses with 80% (8,280 buses) electric fleet, cutting down…
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Delay by Megha Engg consortium: MSRTC receives 20 of 1,700 e-buses in 8 months | Mumbai News
The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), which awarded one of the world’s largest e-bus supply contracts for 5,150 electric buses in July 2023, has received just 20 buses from Olectra Green Tech Limited and Evey Trans Private Limited — subsidiaries of Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), with which it had entered an agreement for supply of electric buses. This represents less than two per cent of the total fleet expected to be received by the MSRTC over the past eight months. The company was supposed to supply 215…