{"id":4334,"date":"2026-10-31T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:12:13","slug":"prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-announces-first-fleet-of-natural-gas-city-buses-in-addis-ababa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-announces-first-fleet-of-natural-gas-city-buses-in-addis-ababa\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Announces First Fleet of Natural Gas City Buses in Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, I am thrilled to announce that the first 26 city buses have been converted from fuel to natural gas and are now in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few months, we have successfully managed the logistics of transporting local natural gas to Addis Ababa, establishing fueling stations, and retrofitting buses. This historic milestone slashes foreign currency spending on fuel, cuts public transit operational costs, and reduces passenger fares by half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing these conversions locally also proves our growing domestic capacity and technology transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To completely eliminate fuel dependency, 400 new natural gas buses will arrive soon. 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Over the past few months, we have successfully managed the logistics of transporting local natural gas to Addis Ababa, establishing fueling stations, and retrofitting buses. This historic milestone slashes foreign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}