{"id":37840,"date":"2024-08-15T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=37840"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:45:56","slug":"chile-to-have-50-of-electric-bus-fleet-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/chile-to-have-50-of-electric-bus-fleet-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile to have 50% of Electric Bus Fleet by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Metropolitan Region of Chile<\/strong> will have 50% of its fleet of electric public transport buses by 2025, following a new tender that seeks to join the 2,480 currently in circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the media Am\u00e9rica Econom\u00eda, at the beginning of the month, the Chilean government<\/strong> informed that it received 86 bids submitted by nine interested companies, both Chilean and foreign, for the bidding process for the 2023 road concession of Red Movilidad, the public transport system of the metropolitan area, where more than seven million people live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the first Chilean tender for roads,<\/strong> that is, for the companies that manage the bus routes in the capital, in which it was required that the units to be operated be 100 percent electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Director of Metropolitan Public Transport, Paola Tapia,<\/strong> pointed out in an interview with Xinhua news agency that everything started in 2017, when Santiago was a pioneer in Latin America in implementing this technology with buses brought from abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n