Portugal: Evora welcomes 23 electric buses
Evora will soon become the first city in Portugal to operate only electric buses. From 1 July, 23 new electric buses will hit the city’s streets. According to Portuguese media, Evora invested €6.7 million in the procurement.
Evora is located in Alentejo’s southern Portuguese region and has almost 60,000 inhabitants. No details are available on the electric buses that are already in operation. For example, local media reports do not indicate which manufacturer built the buses. All that is known is the above-mentioned investment sum and that Evora considers itself the first city in Portugal with an all-electric bus network.
“We don’t know anyone else with the idea of having totally electric public transport, and in principle, we’ll be the first Portuguese city to do so,” the mayor of Evora, Carlos Pinto de Sá, is quoted saying.
Across Portugal, a total of €154.7 million in funding has been granted for decarbonising public transport fleets since 2016. Among other things, this is reflected in the procurement of 558 electric or hydrogen buses. The funds come primarily from the POSEUR programme (“Programa Operacional Sustentabilidade e Eficiência no Uso de Recursos”) with €106.7 million, but almost a third (€48 million) also from the PPR programme (“Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência”).
Funding for at least 200 more zero-emission buses from the PPR pot is said to be planned.
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