7/3/2023 0 Comments Mcts new busesIn addition, there will be another 100 battery-electric 12-metre-buses for depot charging and six full-electric minibuses. The first 190 buses (€ 58.9 million) will arrive in 2021, allowing 258 diesel units to be taken out of service and sold or scrapped. The tender process for the 520 CNG buses has just started and foresees a total budget of € 161.2 million. Diesel buses will be replaced by CNG buses – here two Mercedes-Benz Citaro (left: Diesel and right: CNG) of different series | © Budachĥ20 gas and 106 electric buses will be purchased now. The average age of the buses is already just 5.3 years – significantly less compared to the years 2011-2016, when the operating life cycle of the vehicles was considerably extended from previously 9 years to up to 16 years as a consequence of the severe economic and financial crisis in the country. Tenders were published for the purchase of a total of 626 new vehicles to be delivered in the course of the next three years, which will rejuvenate EMT’s fleet of approximately 2,100 vehicles in total. Only gas, hybrid or full-electric buses will then operate on all city bus routes in the Spanish capital. ![]() The Empresa Municipal de Transporte (EMT) in Madrid – Europe’s second largest municipal bus operator – will phase out all diesel buses by the end of 2022. CNG Bus Scania/Castrosua - 184 of them are in EMT Madrid's fleet | © Budach
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