(31 Jan 2023, 12:17 pm)streetdeckfan wrote If it's the same terms as the previous funding for EVs (I haven't looked into it), then doesn't it only cover the additional cost for it being an EV over the equivalent Diesel vehicle?

So would the route not have to be profitable enough to support a brand new bus regardless of the funding?

It doesn't even cover that. The costings were around £379,801 per single deck bus and around £435,685 for a decker, in the ZEBRA bid last year, and the expectation was that the operators would have to more than match the Government funding.