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21 Mar 2024
By December 2025, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) will withdraw all its diesel run buses and replace them with all electric buses. SMC has retired 340 diesel buses from city bus and BRTS services in last four months. In the next three months, 200 more electric buses will be added to SMC fleet. Daily 2.50 lakh citizens use SMC run 1,000 buses. The SMC has stopped purchasing diesel buses and all such buses when retired are replaced with electric buses. Presently SMC runs 250 electric buses and all set to add another 200, of which 75 are procured and 125 more are to be procured shortly.
