MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has floated tenders, inviting bids to procure e-buses on wet lease.

Sources said that the corporation is likely to procure a total of 100 airconditioned e-buses by the end of the year. The managing director of MSRTC, Ranjit Singh Deol, said: “We are keen to run these airconditioned e-buses, which will be on several intercity routes across Maharashtra - few of them being Mumbai-Pune and Pune-Nashik corridors.”

These buses will have special charging stations set up at MSRTC depots. Sources said the state government was also setting up e-charging stations along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and at other prominent state highways. The state run power utility firm MSEDCL has been roped in to provide the charging points at their substations and offices located close to highways. Six such stations are planned on Pune Expressway.