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£30m fund to help make hybrid bus production viable

23 July 2009
More hybrids on the way?
More hybrids on the way?

 

The government has announced plans for a new £30m scheme that will subsidise the purchase of around 700 low carbon buses.

Bus operators and councils will be able to bid for the money which they can then use towards the additional up front cost of buying low carbon buses.

Transport minister Lord Adonis said that the move would be a boost to bus builders and would also help kickstart mass production of hybrid vehicles by reducing initial acquisition costs. He added that the move would also...

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