JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- All buses purchased in Israel since 2026 should be electric types, Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on Tuesday.
By 2024 at least 30 percent of the buses purchased will be zero-emission ones, and by 2025 half of the procured buses should be emission-free, the ministry said in a statement.
As part of the efforts to electrify public transportation, all municipal public transportation in Israel will be with zero emissions by 2036, the statement said.
Today, diesel-powered buses account for less than 1 percent of all vehicles in Israel but emit about 16 percent of all nitrogen oxides and about seven percent of all soot particles emitted, it added.
In contrast, electric buses cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 percent and reduce noise by threefold, it concluded. ■
