As the Central Government’s rollout of FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles) continues at a rapid pace, we’re in for a new visual treat.
This time, it’s a simple photograph of new buses. After getting hold of its first full length, electric buses at the start of the month, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has got another set of buses from Tata Motors’ plant at Dharwad in Karnataka.
Clicked by fellow transit fan, Gandharva Purohit, this is a batch of 25 Tata Starbus Urban Electric Buses, parked adjacent to the Mulund (East) Toll Plaza on the Eastern Express Highway on 28 August.
Here are some images of the buses:
This photograph was taken from in front of the buses.
This photograph was taken from the footbridge across the highway between the main toll plaza and its extension.
This picture was taken from behind the line of buses.
While it is unsure which depot these buses will be allotted too, they are likely to head to either Worli or Malvani Depots.
If you’re active on Twitter, please do retweet Gandharva’s tweet (included below) and don’t forget to follow him.
That’s all for now. Here’s to BEST’s EV revolution!
Featured Image: New Tata EVs parked at Anand Nagar Toll Plaza (Gandharva Purohit/G.P. Busfanning)
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However comfortable they may be,they have a less charge of only 150 KM.BEST should then buy JBM ecolife.NMMT has 130 of them. Even BMTC has 250 of them in their fleet ! They are priced 3CRORE, but have more legroom,are very comfortable,and are also powerful,compared to Tata or AL. Also, best s new routes are horribly planned. Please,why not request BEST to start a route from Andheri station to Jalvayu Kharghar ? However long they are, they are good for nerul and Belapur residents who come to Andheri regularly for work. They are deciding feeder routes from Andheri, and all long routes from Borivali !!! WTH ?
Please request best for this route and also to ply more electric buses like JBM,Corona etc.
Please inform me back as soon as possible.
Thank you !!!
We need to get rid of this ongoing L1 bidding system so that good quality buses can be procured by the Undertaking. Reason why Tata always win is, they quote the lowest & prefer cost cutting while production. Even Olectra are better to opt for. The meil K9D (SingleDeck Bus) is supposed to be a Low-Floor Bus & delivers better range.