The Infrastructure Ministry is negotiating with a Chinese company to make electric buses in Ukraine, allowing easy access to the booming EU market

The Infrastructure Ministry is negotiating with a Chinese company to make electric buses in Ukraine, allowing easy access to the booming EU market. “Together with the Chinese business, we are trying to set up production of electric buses in Ukraine — the demand for electric buses in Europe is crazy,” Minister Volodomyr Omelyan told a Kyiv briefing, according to the Center for Transportation Strategies. Shortly after he spoke, Paris transport operator RATP announced three French companies – Heuliez Bus, Bollore and Alstom – won a €400 million tender to supply 800 electric buses by 2022. By the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants all of the city’s 4,700 buses to run on electricity or biofuels.