With this order, EKA’s order book now stands at more than 500 electric buses.
15 Feb 2023 | 3803 Views | By Autocar Professional Bureau
EKA Mobility, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries on Wednesday announced receiving a letter of allotment (LoA) for the procurement, operation, and maintenance of 310 electric buses on gross contracting for the recently concluded tender of 6465 electric buses.
With this order, EKA’s order book now stands at more than ...
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EKA Mobility, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries on Wednesday announced receiving a letter of allotment (LoA) for the procurement, operation, and maintenance of 310 electric buses on gross contracting for the recently concluded tender of 6465 electric buses.
With this order, EKA’s order book now stands at more than 500 electric buses and 5000 plus Electric light commercial vehicle orders are in the pipeline, the company said in a statement.
The tender was rolled out by state-owned Convergence Energy Services Ltd, a wholly-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) subsidiary under the phase-1 of the National Electric -Bus Program (NEBP).
EKA’s e-buses will be deployed in the Transport Department Haryana, Department of Transport, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala State Road Transport Corporation for intra-city operations. The deployment of these 310 electric buses for 12 years is expected to save 140,000 tons of CO2 emissions, the company informed in a statement.
Dr. Sudhir Mehta, Founder & Chairman of EKA by Pinnacle Mobility Solutions, said, " We now look forward to ramping up our production, delivering our electric buses to the respective authorities, and continue transforming the mobility sector sustainably and profitably".