Electric buses to be added to public transport fleet in Batumi, west Georgia
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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 will be the first city with electric buses in Georgia.
The eight white electric buses will be 9.5 meters long and can accommodate up to 70 passengers.
Batumi City Hall says that the new electric buses are modern and adapted for people with disabilities. They will also have a sound system and video cameras.
The electric buses will be rechargeable in just 10 minutes.
The tender was announced by the EBRD and the winner company is BKM.
The project costs €4 million.
Batumi already has 40 diesel buses.
126 new 12-meter gas operated buses will appear in Tbilisi, said Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze at a Tbilisi city government session earlier today.
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.
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 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is allocating €5.5 million to add 10 electronic and 20 diesel-powered buses to public transport in Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi.
Eight electric buses have been added to the transport fleet of Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi.
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.