An electric charge for public transport: E-bus market to triple by 2023

As cities seek to reduce tailpipe emissions, the move towards electrifying intra-city transport is gathering speed

The spectacle of jaded, wobbly and crowded buses dotting India’s urban landscape may soon be a thing of the past if the current pace of “green recovery” of the pandemic-dented bus market continues.

As India seeks to cut down on tailpipe emissions, public transport is “up for a paradigm shift with electric buses catching up at a very fast pace”, according to a recent report by Bank of America (BofA) Global Research.

Led by government orders (both central and state), India’s electric bus market is set to tri­ple — from just over 2,000 un­i­ts in 2022 to 6,000 by the