Mircea Florin STERIU
TUMI E-Bus Mission
The TUMI E-Bus Mission supported 20 cities in their transition towards electric bus deployment.
Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative
Funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), a core group of organisations, including C40 Cities, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), and the World Resources Institute (WRI), worked together to accelerate the transition to electric buses in the Global South.
The TUMI E-Bus Mission contributed significantly to the goal of creating sustainable urban transport systems. Air and noise pollution were among the most pressing problems in cities at the time.
The TUMI E-Bus Mission not only worked to reduce these problems, but also significantly cut CO₂ emissions created by urban transport systems.
The TUMI E-Bus Mission cities served as role-model cases for successful, large-scale E-Bus adoption in other cities.
By 2025, 500 cities were inspired, and these actions led to the procurement of more than 100,000 e-buses, resulting in a reduction of more than 15 megatons of CO₂ emissions.
The increased demand for e-buses worldwide accelerated technology maturation and the mass roll-out of the technology.
This ambitious project was developed out of the Action towards Climate-friendly Transport (ACT) Initiative, which was launched at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019.
Key Facts
- Duration: June 2021 – March 2023
- 20 cities to receive support for developing and implementing individual e-bus-roadmaps
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