Rob Quintas, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, said that the city plans to purchase the 12-metre-long buses as part of the MyCiTi Phase 2A expansion, which aims to connect Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain with Claremont and Wynberg.
Approximately R6.3 billion has been allocated for the MyCiTi south-east expansion over the next three years. The city has also set aside funds for its fare collection system and control centre. Starting in 2020, the city conducted a pilot project in which it procured five fully electric BMW I3s for the Traffic Services Department. According to a report by GreenCape, a green-economy business support group, the Golf GTIs that these electric vehicles were to replace have an average annual mileage of 50 000 km., the electric vehicles were used significantly less than their internal combustion engine counterparts. In 2023, only one out of the four cars was used.