The City Council fulfills the promise made by its mayor Jose Luis Martínez-Almeida in 2020 that no municipal bus powered by this fuel would travel the streets of the city after 2023. With this removal, the current 100% clean fleet of the EMT is made up of 1,915 CNG buses and 180 electric buses. This year, the municipal company will also add the first 10 hydrogen buses.
The manufacturer supplied three trucks to Israel as part of a partnership between its Israeli agency Colmobil, hydrogen producer Bazan and hydrogen station operator Sonol to develop a hydrogen value chain in the region. The vehicles will be handed over to Colmobil, Bazan and Sonol, and will be put into commercial operations in the first quarter of 2023.
The Guwahati Smart City Limited, under its Smart City Mission, has procured these NGVs, which will be operated by Assam State Transport Corporation. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this launch is a step towards gradual but firm mitigation of the impacts of climate change and global warming.
