The project will be implemented by Kyiv Metro and Kyivpastrans. In November, the European Investment Bank approved a 100 million euro loan to Kyiv to purchase public electric vehicles, including trolleybuses and subway cars.

purchase of trolleybuses and subway cars

According to the railway magazine Railway Supply , citing Interfax-Ukraine, the total cost of the project is estimated at 270 million euros.

The project will be implemented by Kyiv Metro and Kyivpastrans in accordance with the Kyiv Development Strategy until 2025.

According to the draft decision of the Kyiv City Council to attract an EIB loan in 2021, published by the online publication KyivVlada, the borrowing period is 15 years, including a grace period of three years, the marginal interest rate is 1.85% in euros.

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It should be noted that on December 1 of this year Kyivpastrans announced a tender for the purchase of 137 fully low-floor trolleybuses with the possibility of autonomous travel of up to 20 km for almost UAH 1.62 billion.

In addition, by the beginning of 2023, Kyiv should receive 20 three-section trams ordered from Tatra-Yug for EUR 24.6 million with EIB financing under the Urban Public Transport of Ukraine project.

In addition, in February this year, the EBRD and KP Kyiv Metro signed a loan agreement in the amount of EUR 50 million for the purchase of 50 new subway cars.

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