London to boast Europe's biggest electric bus fleet by the end of the year

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Fifty-one new buses will operate on two all-electric routes in central London by end of 2016

The first two all-electric bus routes in central London will be running by the end of the year, Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) announced as the first nine vehicles of the capital's huge new...

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