zingbus aiming for 1,000+ electric buses
Date: 02 Dec 2025
zingbus,
one of India’s leading intercity smart mobility platforms, highlighted the
strong progress of its electrification initiative, showing how the operator-led
model it began rolling out earlier this year is enabling seamless and
sustainable electric transition across India’s highways. Moving beyond the
traditional Company-Owned, Company-Operated (COCO) approach —successful
examples for which are sparse globally, zingbus has adopted a fundamentally
different growth playbook driven by mutual cooperation and well aligned
incentives for all involved stakeholders.
The
company’s alternate approach allows operators to run their buses with the
company helping them with revenue management and service delivery with their
technology stack customized for electric fleet operations. This structure
aligns incentives, eliminates the chronic revenue losses that plague centrally
run fleets, and allows zingbus to expand without carrying the cost of asset
ownership. With over 250 operators now integrated into the platform, the
company has created one of India’s most robust distributed partner ecosystems
in intercity mobility.
zingbus
has developed a proprietary EV tech stack that provides exactly this
foundation, helping partners adopt electric fleets with ease and without large
upfront commitments. This collaborative approach turns EV adoption into a
shared, scalable opportunity, strengthening the operator community as India
advances toward cleaner intercity travel.
The
company has aggressive plans for expanding their electric fleet to over 1000
buses in the next few years and thus neutralizing 36k+ tons of carbon emissions
annually
Prashant
Kumar, Co-founder of zingbus, said “Our operator partners are excited to go
electric and by empowering them with an EV-ready operating system, we are not
just adding electric buses but are unlocking an entirely new growth curve for
intercity mobility. We believe the highways of the future will be electric, and
they will be built through partnership, not centralisation.”