All European capitals have set themselves the goal of making public transport completely locally emission-free in the future. The use of electric buses plays a crucial role in this. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, has now achieved this goal: since 20 March 2026, only electric buses have been operating on Copenhagen’s public transport network.
On that day, 62 further new electric buses were put into service on the three remaining Movia bus routes which had not been electrified before in the capital region: Routes 19, 350S and 5C operate in the Danish capital region as well as in the municipalities of Brøndby, Frederiksberg, Glostrup, Herlev, Copenhagen, Rødovre and Tårnby.
In 2016, Copenhagen City Council decided to convert all 42 municipal bus routes to zero-emission buses. Since then, buses have been replaced one by one with electric buses. Route 5C, one of Scandinavia’s busiest bus routes with around 17 million daily passengers, has been running on biogas since 2017 and is now switching to electric power, like the other Copenhagen routes. The same applies to route 19, which runs between Glostrup station, Frederiksberg and Valbyparken.
Movia is Denmark’s largest transport operator and is owned by 45 municipalities and two regions on Zealand. With the latest new purchases, 794 of the approximately 1,100 buses operated by Movia across the country are now fully electric – this now includes all buses in the capital region.
(Info: Movia / City of Copenhagen)
06.04.2026
