Is less pollution worth the costs?

Face of the future?: Electric buses, like this 12m three-door electric single-decker bus made by Volvo and Singapore’s SC Auto Industries, are cleaner but costlier than diesel buses. — The Straits Times/ANN

The city-state is accelerating its drive towards a cleaner public bus fleet. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has just called a tender for 400 electric buses to be delivered from late 2024.

This is part of a plan to replace half of Singapore’s fleet of close to 6,000 largely diesel public buses with those running on electricity by 2030.