Curitiba will take out a loan to maintain bus capacity

The city of Curitiba will carry out two credit operations worth R$1 billion to acquire electric vehicles for public transportation. The 138 buses that are to be acquired by the city are fully electric, but they will not increase the capacity for transporting passengers on express transport routes. This is because, despite costing almost twice as much as diesel buses, the electric units will still have a maximum capacity of 250 passengers in the …