PO SEUR II
Operation Name
STCP's new decarbonized fleet
Operation Description
The operation's overall objective is to renew STCP's fleet, replacing 86 end-of-life vehicles with clean vehicles, including five 100% electric ones. This will enable a more efficient public service in technological, environmental, and economic terms, supporting the achievement of national targets regarding the reduction of carbon emissions and the use of fossil fuels, while also reducing the company's ecological footprint.
Operation Objectives
As a public road transportation company, STCP – Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto, EIM, SA plays an important role in the environmental quality of the urban spaces in which it operates. One of the company's core principles is to minimize the environmental impact of its supporting activities by equipping its facilities and equipment with technologically efficient solutions that promote the progressive reduction of pollution and the consumption of natural energy resources.
This operation (POSEUR-01-1407-FC-000039) continues the strategy that STCP has implemented in recent decades, with the diversification of fuels used in the fleet, where Natural Gas took the podium, Electricity presents itself as the future of "clean" mobility and Diesel is limited to an increasingly reduced number of vehicles.
The action foresees the following goals:
- acquisition of 81 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and 5 100% electric vehicles, of the European category M3, class I, more energy and economic efficient and with lower levels of pollutant emissions (with emissions lower than each of the applicable maximum limits, set in the Euro VI Standard of at least 15%);
- withdrawal from circulation of an equal number of end-of-life buses, which do not meet the most appropriate conditions to provide the public service to which STCP is obliged;
- acquisition and installation of infrastructure for charging new electric vehicles;
- requalification of a Natural Gas filling station, making it more efficient.
