The city of São Paulo plans to expand the city’s electric bus fleet to 2,600 vehicles by 2024. This week, mayor Ricardo Nunes met with the director of the World Bank for Brazil, Johannes Zutt, to talk regarding this and others. themes.
According to information released by the Diário do Transporte website, in addition to new vehicles, more bus lanes will be dedicated to electric models, which should be circulating by December 2024, the end of the current municipal administration.
The president of the City Council, Milton Leite, estimated in November last year that to meet this goal, it would be necessary to spend almost R$ 8 billion, bearing in mind that each electric bus can cost up to R$ 3 million.
Data from São Paulo Transporte (SPTrans) indicate that, by February 2023, bus companies in the capital had already ordered 2,152 electric buses. Of this total, 1,480 should be delivered later this year for the start of operations.
