The city of Marrakech is undertaking a pioneering experience at the national level by introducing electrical busses to replace diesel ones in a bid to reduce pollution, noise and enhance urban transportation. After a delay of a year in launching the E-busses, tests are ongoing with the goal of officially operating the busses by the end of September, Marrkaech City Council explained. According to the City Council, this urban transportation, worth 240 million dirhams, was delayed for multiple reasons, among which the need to conduct further studies and train drivers. The establishment of a plant to produce such buses will be conducive to the generalization of the use of electrical busses across the Kingdom. Last year in July, Chinese carmaker Yang Tze said it would establish a factory to produce electrical cars and busses near Tangier for a total investment of 1 billion dirhams ($101.6 million).

Source: The North Africa Journal August 13, 2017 00:00 UTC