Kathmandu, April 10 -- Sajha Yatayat formally inducted 40 new electric buses to its fleet and inaugurated Nepal's biggest simultaneous charging station for them in Patan on Tuesday.

The 1.1 MW charging station shows that Nepal's energy transition to renewables is not just environmentally beneficial but also economically viable. The green buses seen on Kathmandu Valley routes are now fully green - running on hydroelectricity that Nepal itself produces and not on imported diesel.

The 40 new e-buses are made by CHTC company in Nanjing and the entire fleet can now be charged at the new charging station.

Kulman Ghising of the Nepal Electricity Authority was on hand at the inauguration and extolled the virtues of going electric, mainly that ...