One hundred electric buses of Egyptian manufacture will soon be operating on the 110-kilometre Greater Cairo Ring Road.
According to an official statement, the eco-friendly fleet for the bus rapid transit (BRT) system will cost LE680 million as per a recent contract between Arab Union Land Transport and Tourism Company (Super Jet), affiliated to the Transport Ministry and the Armoured Vehicles Production and Repair Factory (Factory 200 Military) under the National Authority for Military Production.
Minister of Transport Kamel el-Wazir said that the contract comes in response to the directives from the political leadership to localise the transport industry, which will entail the increase of locally-made components from 60 per cent to 100 per cent of the final product.
The contract marks a breakthrough in electric bus manufacture in Egypt, the minister said, adding that his ministry will complete bus stops for phase one of the BRT system and embark on Ring Road development phase two, when 200 electrically-driven buses will be operating, serving 25 million people from 47 stops.
The €2.7 billion monorail lines in the New Administrative Capital and 6 October City and the light rail transit (LRT) are among other clean-energy transport projects this country has undertaken.
