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- All 525 electric buses to be soon operated in Tamil Nadu will be owned and run by a private bidder.
- They will not be operated by State Transport Corporations (STC).
- There will be no outright bus purchase by the state government.
- Instead a gross cost contract (GCC) will be signed between STCs and the successful bidder.
- FAME-II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles) mandates a GCC to be signed between the respective state transport corporation and the operator (successful bidder).
- Tamil Nadu has eight STCs, including MTC, Chennai.
- The cost of maintenance for electric buses is much lower than diesel ones. Energy consumption cost is `25/km for diesel buses and `7/km for e-buses.
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