Implementation Plan for Electrification of Public Bus Transport in Bengaluru

In 2017, Karnataka became the first Indian state to announce an EV Policy. In this project, CSTEP identified key barriers in large-scale EV penetration, towards preparing a long-term implementation plan for public electric bus (e-bus) transportation for Bengaluru.

A GIS based, transport and electricity distribution infrastructure planning and visualisation tool was developed to identify feasible bus routes to operate an e-bus fleet. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) framework was used to estimate direct financial costs by comparing diesel variant bus with fully electric and hybrid bus variants.