Moscow is set to become the world’s first major city to have its public transport entirely powered by electricity, the capital’s mayor revealed on Thursday, explaining that there will be no diesel buses in Moscow at all by 2028.
Speaking at the Russian Energy Week conference, Sergey Sobyanin announced that Moscow already has one of the world’s largest fleets of electric buses. By the end of the year, there will be a thousand of them. Furthermore, in six to seven years, there will be so many electric-powered buses that all the diesel vehicles will be retired.
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