The policy shift towards electric vehicles has disrupted BEST’s double-decker bus maths with costs shooting up and the procurement going back to the drawing table. Its chief told mid-day on Thursday that despite the “electrifying delay”, the e-buses will come by 2022.

Following emotional appeals from Mumbaikars, first reported by mid-day, the undertaking had in November 2020 placed orders for 100 automatic transmission Bharat Standard VI class, non-AC double-decker buses with power-operated doors.