The TSRTC has decided to run electric AC buses on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada route in order to cater to its Vijayawada-bound passengers.
It has decided to run 50 electric AC buses on the route.
As part of that, the corporation will flag off 10 electric AC buses in the first phase on Tuesday at the Pushpak bus point in Miyapur.
Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar will flag off the buses along with TSRTC Chairman Bajireddy Govardhan and MD V C Sajjanar.
The remaining buses will be commissioned in a phased manner till December this year.
The corporation has given a name to this fleet of buses - it has decided to call them "E-Garuda" buses. It has also announced that there would be an E-Garuda bus on the Vijayawada route from the city every 20 minutes.
The corporation has already announced its plans to add 1,860 electric buses to its fleet in the next two years. Of these, 1,300 buses will be operated in the State capital limits, and the remaining will be operated in the various districts of the State.
The E-Garuda bus is 12 metres long and has 41 seats. Every seat has a mobile charging and a reading ramp facility, and a panic button connected directly to the control room of the corporation to extend any help to the passengers during emergencies. Every bus also has three CC cameras with a backup capacity of one month's data.
The buses also have automatic passenger counters to count the number of passengers in the bus at any given point of time, public address systems to make announcements to the passengers, and reverse parking assistance cameras. A bus can travel up to 325 km on a single charge of its battery.
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