“Introducing energy-efficient technologies to decrease fuel use at least by half per kilometer travelled is urgently needed,” said Jovanka Arsic Karisic of the NGO Central European Development Forum, who is committed to working faster on developing a cleaner transportation also due to European Union accession requirements.
The buses are produced locally in the Vulovic factory in Kragujevac, and the producer has secured a contract to supply 32 of them. The government will subsidize the manufacturer in an effort to comply with the EU policy of having 20% of vehicles run on natural gas by 2020.
“This is our contribution to the project to clean Serbia. We want to leave a cleaner Belgrade to the next generation, and that is why we buy eco-friendly vehicles and plant trees,” Antic told SETimes.
