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![Kayleigh Ingham and Andrew Cullen look on as the fuel tank is removed 1](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/b4fb025f1d6f45c4baa62e5368894486.jpg?width=442&height=663)
First Bus depot in York makes history with fuel tank removed forever
- Depot is first in Yorkshire to only use electric charging for its bus fleet
- Total carbon saving of electric fleet close to 5,000 tonnes a year
- Latest stage in £23m transformation of the depot
![Bramley cllrs visit 2](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/3f4c3af347bf4eb8b24ad9bd9768c861.jpg?width=442&height=663)
First Bus and Combined Authority announce further £11.2m for Bramley bus depot
- Investment and co-funding from Department for Transport Zebra scheme
- Extra 22 electric buses brings zero emission fleet to 79 – half Bramley total
- Delivery of more buses expected in July 2024
![First Bus 'switch on' Bramley depot 1](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/1bd8723a27ab4e66905c1fa8a3c7438f.jpg?width=442&height=663)
First Bus ‘switch on’ the largest fleet of zero emission buses in West Yorkshire
- Electrification of Bramley depot completed as electric buses join city network
- £29m project combines investment by First Bus and co-funding from Department for Transport Zebra scheme secured by Combined Authority
- 57 zero emission buses with more expected in summer 2024
![Service 67 outside York train station](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/5ee244f061fc470f87c35c04d45e60ac.jpg?width=442&height=663)
First Bus electrifies university routes as rollout of new zero emission buses continues
- 10 vehicles introduced on 66 and 67 services alongside campus shuttles
- £3m investment by First Bus
![Switch autonomous bus at Didcot Parkway with customer](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/68d5f2ad11b647bf835ecf5acca68371.jpg?width=442&height=663)
Autonomous single-decker bus producing zero carbon emissions on UK roads for the first time
- Only all-electric autonomous bus service in the country
- Trial begins in September
![First North & West Yorkshire directors 'switch on' York Electric fleet with Cllr Claire Douglas (right)](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/b89b6ed1c9b745548541a786c08a9099.jpg?width=442&height=663)
First Bus ‘switch on’ new all-electric fleet in York as zero emission transformation gathers pace
- £23m investment in greener public transport in York
- Fully electric fleet to be completed by the end of 2023
- Depot power charging installation continues
- Thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions saved every year
![Bramey depot EV underway2](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/0d66885de0c1430d82529455c4e4578f.jpg?width=442&height=663)
Electric transformation of First Bus Leeds depot gets underway
- Power chargers and infrastructure to be complete by October
- £29m scheme combining investment and Government funding
![First Bus x Wrightbus ZEBRA](https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/88bd03a662164c78b8b09ac26d5fa963.jpg?width=442&height=663)
Over £18million investment sees First Bus order 44 new electric buses for York
- Total investment of £18.4m by First Bus and Government funding secured by City of York Council
- 24 single-decker and 20 double-decker buses
- Buses will save nearly 2,700 tonnes of CO2 every year
- First vehicles expected to arrive in 2023
- UK-built buses will secure green jobs in the UK
- Largest ever UK EV bus order outside of London