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Re-powering company calls for access to grants to back quick bus clean-up

Peter Stonham
20 September 2023
 

A bus re-powering company is calling for Government ZEBRA2 funding to include retrofitted re- powered electric buses, which it says cost significantly less than a new electric bus with a third  of the operating costs of diesel, achieving a quicker and cheaper transition across the sector to Net Zero. 

Joe Tighe, Co-founder and CEO of Kleanbus, commented: “While we welcome new funding to accelerate the zero-emission transition, we are disappointed repowered buses are not included...

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