The Egyptian government inked a contract to acquire 100 electric buses in bid to promote green mobility to combat air pollution. Kamel al-Wazir, th
The Egyptian government inked a contract to acquire 100 electric buses in bid to promote green mobility to combat air pollution.
Kamel al-Wazir, the Egyptian Minister of Transport, and his counterpart Mahmoud Esmat, in charge of the public business sector inked the deal worth US $27.6M to purchase 100 electric buses that will be locally manufactured. The buses which are slated to run by 2023 will be produced locally at the factory of the Egyptian manufacturer Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) based in Salheya, Ach-Sharqiya governorate.
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The project is jointly managed by the Arab Union of Land Transport and Tourism Company (Super Jet) and the Armoured Vehicles Production and Repair Factory under the National Authority for Military Production. A few months ago, the Egyptian government signed a similar agreement worth 323 million Egyptian pounds (more than $17 million) for the purchase of 70 electric buses. The vehicles, dubbed “Setibus”, were driven at the 27th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP27) held recently in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Meanwhile, the construction of electric car charging stations continues in the capital Cairo. These installations are part of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Green Cities programme.