Initial Investment Hampers Electric Buses

This will be the beginning of the Transportation Ministry’s policy with its target of making 90 percent of public transportation fleets in Indonesia battery-based by 2030.

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PT Powerindo Prima Engineering Manager Perks Darmster F Yimmy R shows how to charge electric buses operated by Mayasari Bakti at the Mayasari Bakti electric bus depot, on Thursday (9/6/2022).

The expensive initial investment in the electric bus industrial development poses a constraint on the program for mass transport electrification. Bus operators have a higher cost than conventional buses.