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London bus, Source: Pixabay

London will buy only zero emissions transport by 2025

London will buy only zero emissions transport by 2025

This goal will have enormous impact on fuel consumption

London is slowly transforming its fleet. Currently 4 routes in the city center serviced by single-decker units are being shifted to electricity. There are plans to make significant investments to the clean its public transport networks, including retrofitting 5,000 old diesel buses in a program to ensure all buses are emission-free by 2037.

Those goals will have an impact on fuel consumption. London’s network draws about 1.5 million barrels a year of fuel. If the entire fleet goes electric, that may displace 430 barrels a day of diesel for each 1,000 buses going electric, reducing diesel consumption by about 0.7%. Across the UK there were 344 electric and plug-in hybrid buses in 2017. From March  there are 11 new electric buses that hit London.

Source: Bloomberg

 

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