Oxfordshire bids for ZEBRA electric bus funding

County, city and bus companies wants £32.8m to fund 159 vehicles

Oxfordshire`s Cllr Tim Bearder

Oxfordshire`s Cllr Tim Bearder

Oxfordshire County Council has applied for £32.8m from the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme.

Along with £6m from the council and £43.7m from bus companies Go Ahead and Stagecoach, the scheme could deliver 159 electric buses and the infrastructure to charge them in a package worth £82.5m.

If successful, the electric buses would operate in an area stretching from Kidlington in the north to Sandford in the south, and from Cumnor in the west to Wheatley in the...