For the 1st time in Georgia, coastal city of Batumi will have electric buses
Batumi City Hall did not state the exact date when the buses will start serving passengers.Photo: wikipedia.
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Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi will be the first in the country to serve passengers with electric buses, as per an agreement signed between Batumi City Hall and the Belarussian electric car manufacturer Belkommunmash.
The rollout will begin with eight buses. The budget for the project amounts to €3,777,000 which includes a €1,500,000 grant from the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership fund.
The deal was signed yesterday. Photo: Batumi City Hall.
The remaining funds will be provided by an affordable loan from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
It is the first time that the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership fund has allocated money for a project involving electric buses in the Caucasus region,” Batumi City Hall reports.
The Batumi bus fleet replaced 40 of its buses last year. However, the vehicles were not electric.
Municipal buses in Tbilisi will soon also have female drivers. Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said at a city hall session today that 21 women have been trained and received category D driver’s licenses.
Ninety green buses will gradually appear in the Georgian capital Tbilisi starting tomorrow and serve passengers, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze stated in a live video from Poland today, where he visited the MAN factory.
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is continuing to modernise its public bus fleet by introducing 90 brand new, 10-meter long diesel operated buses.
Georgia is introducing new buses to operate routes between the country’s central airport to downtown Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital.
Sixty new Isuzu buses, purchased by Tbilisi Transport Company, have been presented by Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze earlier today, saying that remaining 160 buses will enter the capital city before the end of the year to replace outdated public transport.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will allocate €80 million to help Georgia purchase compressed natural gas (CNG) buses for Tbilisi, of which €65 million will be used for purchasing buses and €15 million for building a bus depot.
Electric buses will be added to the transport fleet of Georgia’s Black Sea town of Batumi starting this autumn, says Batumi City Hall.
Batumi has become the first city in the South Caucasus where non-polluting, fully electric buses have been added to the transport fleet thanks to EU financial aid.