{"id":338467,"date":"2025-12-24T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=019474ca4aa84a94d0529d1e7c614e96"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:12:17","slug":"electric-buses-now-serving-invercargill-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338467","title":{"rendered":"Electric buses now serving Invercargill routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Invercargill City Council\u2019s BusSmart network is rolling out its new fleet of seven electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re environmentally cleaner and cheaper to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only reminder we have for people is to remember the EV bus fleet is a lot quieter,\u2019\u2019 the council\u2019s chief executive Michael Day said. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\n\u201cThe only reminder we have for people is to remember the EV bus fleet is a lot quieter,\u2019\u2019 the council\u2019s chief executive Michael Day said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo whether you\u2019re a pedestrian, cyclist or driving on our roads, make sure you\u2019re aware of other vehicles around you.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The fleet would operate under a nine-year $21.5 million contract with international zero-emission company Kinetic, which also services greater Christchurch, the Otago network including Mosgiel\u2019s fully electric fleet, and a quarter of London\u2019s famed red buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invercargill City Council\u2019s BusSmart network is rolling out its new fleet of seven electric vehicles. They\u2019re environmentally cleaner and cheaper to run. \u201cT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338468,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338467\/revisions\/338468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}