3,500 eco-friendly buses to hit Polish streets over next decade: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
21.03.2018 08:30
Some 3,500 new eco-friendly buses will hit Poland’s streets over the next 10 years, according to a report.
![A Solaris Urbino electric bus in service in Warsaw. Photo: Jakub Murat [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/8ee5bad1-6f49-47fa-8579-d105b8c994dc.file "A Solaris Urbino electric bus in service in Warsaw. Photo: Jakub Murat [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
A Solaris Urbino electric bus in service in Warsaw. Photo: Jakub Murat [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Today about 90 electric buses and 350 buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) are in operation across the country, according to the "Alternative fuels in public transit" report drawn up by the Polish Association of Alternative Fuels (PSPA) and the Chamber of Urban Transport (IGKM).
According to Maciej Mazur, managing director of the PSPA -- which is a nongovernmental organisation that aims to promote cost-effective, low-carbon energy technologies -- Poland is already among countries leading the way in Europe in terms of electromobility in public transport.
At the end of last year, a Polish deputy prime minister said the government in Warsaw would launch a special Low-Emission Transport Fund that would be endowed with close to PLN 5 billion (EUR 1.2 billion, USD 1.44 billion) in funds by 2027.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared in December that tackling air pollution, which is estimated to kill some 50,000 people a year in the country, would be one of his government’s priorities.
(gs/pk)
Source: money.pl