Tata Motors on Friday said it has bagged an order for 1,500 electric buses from Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) as part of a tender by Convergence Energy Services.
The auto major will supply, operate and maintain
air-conditioned, low-floor, 12-metre fully-built electric buses for 12 years,
as per the contract, it said in a statement.
The Mumbai-based company has already supplied more than 650
electric buses across multiple cities in India, which have cumulatively clocked
more than 39 million kilometres.
Delhi Transport Corporation MD Neeraj Semwal said the
induction of the environment-friendly buses will help largely in reducing air
pollution and benefit millions of citizens.
Convergence Energy Services (CESL) MD and CEO Mahua Acharya
said that the Delhi Government has shown exemplary leadership in transitioning
over to electric buses. "We are fortunate to have benefited from this and
are thankful to Tata Motors in their generous collaboration," she added.
Recently, Tata Motors' Chairman N Chandrasekaran announced
in a shareholders' meeting that the company aims to sell about 50,000 electric
vehicles (EVs) in the fiscal year to March 31, and double that in the 2023-24 period.
In 2021-22, Tata Motors sold 19,105 EVs, a growth of 353
percent from the previous fiscal year.
Electrification is the cornerstone of Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's climate change and carbon reduction agenda and EVs are seen as
a way to help India to cut its oil import bill and reduce pollution in major
cities.
India wants electric models to make up 30 percent of total
passenger car sales in the country by 2030, up from about 1 percent today, and
e-scooters and e-bikes to account for 80 percent of total two-wheeler sales, up
from about 2 percent.
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