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Leicester on course for fully electric bus fleet by 2030… if DfT funding is secured

Deniz Huseyiin
25 July 2024
From left: Zoe Hands, managing director of FirstBus Midlands, Manchester and South Yorkshire; City Mayor Peter Soulsby; Cllr Geoff Whittle, assistant city mayor for transport and environment; and, Toby France, head of commercial (East and South Midlands) at Arriva UK Bus
From left: Zoe Hands, managing director of FirstBus Midlands, Manchester and South Yorkshire; City Mayor Peter Soulsby; Cllr Geoff Whittle, assistant city mayor for transport and environment; and, Toby France, head of commercial (East and South Midlands) at Arriva UK Bus
 

The Leicester Buses Partnership has reached one its milestone targets, with half the fleet now electric. The city’s enhanced bus partnership has set the target of a fully electric fleet by 2030, but this is subject to additional investment of around £86.5m being raised, it said.

There are now 134 electric buses across Leicester, operating from four charging depots. First Bus’s depot is fully electric now which was funded by through the through the DfT’s Zero Emission Bus...

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