The one-time goal of an entirely electric Wellington bus fleet by 2030 no longer looks possible following government funding cuts to public transport.
Full electrification had originally been expected to take a decade as part of plans to reduce the region’s carbon footprint ‒ Wellington currently still had 350 diesel buses, and 102 electric buses.
The Greater Wellington Regional Council had to rewrite its public transport plans, meeting papers show, after the Government released its National Land Transport Fund last year, which meant big cuts to government funding for public transport.
