December 4 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Sliven municipality will receive 11 million levs ($6.2 million/5.6 million euro) in EU funding under operational programme Environment 2014-2020 for the purchase of four electric buses and six trolleybuses with improved energy efficiency, the environment ministry said.
The total investment in the project, which will upgrade the public transport of Sliven municipality, amounts to 13.2 million levs, the ministry said in a statement earlier this week.
The new will replace eleven of the oldest diesel buses and trolleybuses in the municipality, thus reducing nitrogen oxide emissions by 3.41 tonnes per year and fine particulate matter levels by 0.17 tonnes per year.
The delivery of the vehicles is planned to be completed within 39 months.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)