Bengaluru: BMTC launched first Electric bus, Transport Minister B Sriramulu inaugurates

Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s first electric bus will be unveiled by Transport Minister B Sriramulu on Thursday. The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), the operator of buses, has already received the electric bus manufactured by the Uttar Pradesh-based JBM Auto Limited.

The first e-bus of Bengaluru will be unveiled by the Transport Minister at the Kengeri depot. Besides Kengeri depot, e-bus services will be operated from the Yeshwantpur depot as well as the KR Puram depot of the BMTC. The carrying capacity of each e-bus is 33 passengers, News Next kannada Reported.

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Commercial e-bus services will start on 1 November 2021 (the day of Kannada Rajyotsava), According to the officials of BMTC. A senior BMTC official was quoted in the report saying that the corporation has received only one e-bus till now but it expects to receive at least 10 e-buses by the month of November.

Then the BMTC will be able to run feeder services to Namma Metro stations as well as resolve last-mile connectivity problems faced by Bengaluru Metro commuters, the senior BMTC officer added. The e-buses are being launched in Bengaluru by the BMTC jointly with Smart City Bengaluru as well as the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited.

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