A brand new fleet of 25 electric buses has finally arrived from the manufacturing facility at Dharwad, and was seen queued at toll booths to enter the city. The new Tata Starbus Urban EV buses have been inducted in the fleet procured under the Central Government’s FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles) policy. The 12-metre long, 35-seater Tata Starbus AC electric buses, part of a larger order of 340 buses, are equipped with advanced features.

BEST Chairman Ashish Chemburkar and General Manager Lokesh Chandra had said that the Undertaking was looking at increasing the fleet of electric buses in order to reduce dependency on fossil fuel, and experts had congratulated them saying it would be apt that a power company runs electric buses.