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Montevideo's Electric Buses and Their Subsidy Reports
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under a national subsidy created by Article 349 of Law 19.670, which allowed up to 4% of the national diesel bus fleet, about 120 buses, to be replaced
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The first call subsidised 32 buses for five operators, 20 of them for CUTCSA
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30 run in Montevideo and two in Canelones
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the operators monitor the buses' routes and energy use and report them to a technical commission of four ministries
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Decree 165/019 requires the periodic publication of the buses' operating data
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The commission's second annual report, published in March 2023, counted 1,928,520 km between June 2021 and May 2022 at an average of 0.88 kWh/km
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found the buses ended the day with at least 20% of battery left 99.6% of the time
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In February 2024 the city launched a fund to finance new electric buses for its four urban operators
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by October 2025 Montevideo had 177 electric buses out of 1,547
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Compared with a diesel bus doing 2.52 km per litre, the commission calculated that the electric buses avoided more than 770,000 litres of fuel between June 2021 and May 2022
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The operators reported very low maintenance costs and fewer failures than expected, and named the time needed for charging and uncertainty about range as drawbacks
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the commission's annual reports describe the first 32 subsidised buses in kilometres, kilowatt-hours and battery levels
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The 50 buses added in October 2025 were presented with an estimate instead — about 31,000 litres of diesel saved per bus a year.
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- Urban bus operators CUTCSA, COETC, UCOT and COME (plus CODELESTE in Canelones); subsidy reporting by a technical commission of four ministries chaired by the MIEM
- Actor types
- private, national-government, city-government
- Funding model
- mixed
- Funding description
- The first 32 buses were bought by the operators with a national subsidy under Article 349 of Law 19.670; from 2024 the city's transport fund, which placed debt of 248 million indexed units, finances further buses for the four urban operators.
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6 source dossiers
Comisión Técnica del subsidio a la compra de ómnibus eléctricos — Informe anual: operación de ómnibus eléctricos (Mar 2023)
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- Name not classified · gub.uy
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Second annual report of the four-ministry technical commission on the 32 buses bought with the subsidy under Article 349 of Law 19.670 (up to 4% of the national diesel fleet, about 120 buses). Lists the operators (CODELESTE 2, COETC 4, COMESA 3, CUTCSA 20, UCOT 3); for June 2021–May 2022 it counts 1,928,520 km, total consumption of 2,114,999 kWh, an average 0.88 kWh/km (range 0.69 to 1.3), buses ending the day with 20% or more battery 99.6% of the time, and more than 770,000 litres of fuel avoided against a diesel bus doing 2.52 km/l. It also records the operators' comments on low maintenance costs, fewer failures than expected, charging time and range.
MIEM — Ómnibus eléctricos de Montevideo sustituyeron consumo de 300.000 litros de gasoil (31 Aug 2021)
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- 2021-08-31
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Ministry news on the commission's first results report: 30 electric buses in Montevideo ran more than 700,000 km in their first six months; as a condition of the subsidy, operators monitor routes and energy use and must give the information to the technical commission; line CE1 on 18 de Julio was fully electrified.
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MIEM — Ómnibus eléctricos evitaron consumo de 615.000 litros de combustible durante primer año (30 Nov 2021)
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- 2021-11-30
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Ministry news on the first annual report: the 32 buses in Montevideo and Canelones ran more than 1.5 million km in their first twelve months at an average 1.11 kWh/km; 30 have operated in Montevideo since 2020 and two in Canelones; the commission is made up of four ministries.
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IMPO — Decreto 165/019, reglamentación del subsidio a ómnibus eléctricos (17 Jun 2019)
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- Name not classified · impo.com.uy
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- 2019-06-17
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The decree regulating the electric-bus subsidy. Among the technical commission's duties it lists keeping a register of every bus bought with the subsidy and producing an annual report on the subsidy and making its main results public.
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El Observador — Pago con QR, débito y crédito: cuándo empiezan a regir cambios en el STM (27 Feb 2024)
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- Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
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- 2024-02-27
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Reports that at the start of February 2024 the city's transport fund (Fideicomiso Financiero del Fondo de Financiamiento para la Renovación Tecnológica del Transporte Colectivo Urbano de Montevideo I) placed debt of 248 million indexed units, to be passed to Cutcsa, Coetc, Ucot and Come to buy new units (electric buses) and technology.
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El Observador — Montevideo suma 50 nuevos ómnibus eléctricos (21 Oct 2025)
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- Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
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- 2025-10-21
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Reports CUTCSA presenting 50 new BYD electric buses bought under the transport fund launched by the city in February 2024; with them Montevideo's electric fleet reaches 177 of 1,547 buses, and CUTCSA announced 60 more; each electric bus is said to save about 31,000 litres of diesel a year.
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