360 more electric buses to hit the roads from Dec 2024 in biggest purchase by Singapore

The latest purchase will take the total number of public buses running on batteries here to 420. - PHOTO: ST FILE

SINGAPORE: A total of 360 new electric buses will be added to the public bus fleet here, after the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore awarded contracts worth $166.4 million to two companies in the biggest purchase of its kind.

To support the roll-out of the new battery-powered vehicles, another two contracts worth $46.1 million were also awarded for the deployment of charging systems at bus depots currently being built in Sengkang West, East Coast and Gali Batu.