Bluebird Will Add More Than 5,000 Fleets Next Year

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JAKARTA - PT Blue Bird (Persero) Tbk plans to add a fleet next year. The number of vehicles to be purchased ranges from 5,000 to 8,000 units. In line with this plan, the company's capital expenditure or Capital Expenditure (Capex) is also higher next year.

"Capex is higher. So if this year we buy 5,000 vehicles. We will definitely buy more than 5,000 vehicles," said Bluebird President Director Sigit Djokosoetono at a press conference, at the Bluebird Group Office, Jakarta, Thursday, November 10. On the other hand, Sigit said the company is committed to carrying out a 50/30 vision agenda, namely reducing 50 percent carbon emissions and operational waste by 2030. Furthermore, Sigit said that one of the efforts made to support the mission was to switch to electric vehicles that were carried out in stages. "But in order to reduce carbon, we have to calculate how much is needed, the capex can be adjusted or not. If the price is affordable, we can take more (EV)," he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy President Director of PT Blue Bird Tbk, Adrianto Djokosoetono, said that the current EV price is around 3.5-4 times the price of conventional vehicles. It is believed that EV prices will be in a downward trend. "Actually, in early 2020 it started to fall but unfortunately because of global supply problems. So the price of all vehicles goes up but with fuel prices now it's actually getting higher, it's actually getting better for conversion," he said.