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Hamburg invests in charging infrastructure for electric vehicles

28 February 2018

by Nick Michell

The German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is providing €8.6 million in funding for a pilot project to improve the charging infrastructure in bus depots in Hamburg.

Around €6.4 million will go to Hochbahn, the underground and bus system operator in Hamburg, to fund energy supply and the charging infrastructure for six carports in the Gleisdreick bus depot. The project is aiming to find a solution that can be adapted by transport authorities across Germany.

“The Hamburg pilot project is unique in that to date no bus depot has been designed to supply a pure battery bus fleet,” a spokesperson from the German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, to...

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