一輛電動巴士要2700萬盧比
BENGALURU: After drawing flak over a proposed steel flyover, the Karnataka government is staring at another controversy . The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation’s proposal to procure 150 electric buses at a cost of Rs 2.7 crore per vehicle has raised eyebrows.
此前提議修建一座鋼架天橋而遭到抨擊，卡納塔克邦政府這次又引起一個爭議。
Experts say this amount is exorbitant as the price of a battery-driven bus at current market rate is not more than Rs 1.5 crore.
班加羅爾市交通集團提議以每輛2700萬盧比的價格採購150輛電動車，引來人們的質疑聲。
To tap into funds provided under the Centre’s Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid) Electric Vehicles (FAME), the BMTC board of directors on Monday gave in-principle approval to the proposal to purchase 150 electric buses to be run on a pilot basis.
作爲試點項目，班加羅爾市交通局原則上批准採購150輛電動巴士。
The scheme offers in centives for electric vehicles as FAME, launched by the Union heavy industries ministry last year, and envisages not less than Rs 15,000-crore support.
去年，聯合重工業部發起了電動車項目，希望獲得不少於1500億盧比的支持。
The BMTC’s move to introduce battery-driven buses is in keeping with the concerns of environment protection and saving fossil fuel even as the transport corporation had triallaunched the electric buses in February 2014. Although BMTC has not officially announced the cost, sources in the corporation said it’s Rs.2.7 crore per bus.
班加羅爾市交通局引入電動巴士的舉動，符合保護環境和節省化石燃料的初衷，在2014年2月就曾經試推出過電動巴士。雖然並未正式宣佈價格，然而消息人士透露每輛爲2700萬盧比。
