Gujarat/New Delhi,
, 2023: Commemorating Sardar Patel’s Jayanti, Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today flagged off 30 electric buses at the ‘Statue of Unity’ in order to boost the green mobility initiatives and keep the world famous monument free of air pollution. These 12 meter AC electric buses are manufactured by JBM Auto, a leading bus manufacturer of the country. These buses will replace the current diesel buses, offering tourists a noise and pollution free experience.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Nishant Arya, Vice Chairman, JBM Group said, “We are honoured to be part of this historic moment of induction of electric buses in and around the area of Statue of Unity. This is a great step in ensuring clean environment around the world’s tallest statue and also help the larger agenda of achieving NetZero by the year 2070.”
As part of the larger green initiative, Hon’ble PM also inaugurated a public bike-sharing program, the distribution of city gas facilitated by Gujarat Gas Limited, as well as the provision of golf carts to streamline transportation for tourists visiting ‘Statue of Unity’.
“As India moves forward in adopting green mobility under the vision of Hon’ble PM, we are proud to be part of this journey. In order to help country adopt electric buses faster, we recently set-up India’s largest bus manufacturing facility with a capacity of 20,000 buses per annum. We have brought technological innovations and have now extended our ‘Make in India’ initiative go global thus offering our product range to global markets”.
Over 100 JBM electric buses are currently running in the state of Gujarat across BRTS in Ahmedabad, Gift City and Airport. The company has an order book of over 5000 electric buses deployed and under execution across various applications and geographies across the globe. Over the last 5 years, the company has clocked 100+ million e-kms having catered to over 1 billion passengers till date. The company has pledged to clock over 1 billion e-kms and catering to 10+ billion passengers in next 3-4 years.
