In early April 2018, the public transportation company in Iceland, Straeto bs, put four electric buses on the road, according to RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.

Straeto bs ordered 14 electric buses from China at a total cost of 880 million ISK (est. USD 8.2 million), based on Frettabladid, an Icelandic daily newspaper. Once all the clean buses are in movements on the road, together they will reduce the harmful gas emission by 1.750 ton annually.

Since there are speed barriers on the roads in the Capital Region, where most of the buses are operated, before the buses were successfully delivered, the Chinese bus manufacturer had to put extensive efforts to make sure that the buses are capable of handling this type of road condition in Iceland.

For a country where electricity is almost entirely generated by clean, recyclable energy, such as hydropower and thermal power, Iceland is once again outpacing the rest of the world by inaugurating clean electric buses that consume clean energy.

This is not the only idea Iceland has to build a green, clean country. Let’s first take a look at the CO2 emission in Iceland since 1990.