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areas could be awarded up to £50 million each to introduce all-electric bus services up to 500 buses could be replaced – saving 1000s of tonnes of CO2 each year – and helping the country build back greener 19 towns and cities applied to the all-electric bus competition Coventry and Oxford are developing proposals to become the first parts of the UK to run all-electric bus services, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced today (6 January 2021). The cities are developing business cases in an England-wide competition to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles. S...

OXFORD is set to become one of the UK’s first all-electric bus cities. Alongside Coventry, Oxford is developing proposals to run solely all-electric bus services, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced yesterday. Both cities are developing business cases in a nationwide competition to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles. Subject to a successful business case, Oxford could be awarded up to £50 million to not only replace its entire fleet of buses with all-electric versions, but to also install new infrastructure, such as charging stations, and pay for ...