ISLAMABAD: After introducing an electric vehicle (EV) charging station in Islamabad, the government has decided to install EV charging stations on motorways across the country. He was speaking at the ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Science and Technology with a British company, EGV Limited, to build electric buses in the country. The minister said that EGV was Europe’s largest bus manufacturing company and they will be assembling electric buses in Pakistan, adding that this is the second agreement the government has signed with a foreign company for the manufacturing of electric buses. In the first phase, buses will run in these three cities of the country, Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad. Furthermore, 40 per cent of all public transport buses will be shifted to electric vehicles within the next ten years.

Source: Pakistan Today October 26, 2020 16:41 UTC