Barcelona and the wider metropolitan area are seeing a steady expansion in electric transport, as the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, AMB, adds electric buses, grows its public bike service and increases charging points for private vehicles.
Over the past three years, AMB has added 108 fully electric buses to its fleet. It has also added 325 new buses in total, and plans to add 173 more by spring or summer next year. Nearly one-third of those new and planned vehicles are fully electric.
Between 2023 and 2027, 159 new electric buses will have joined the Metropolitan Bus fleet. AMB says these buses emit up to 80% fewer pollutants than older models, while fully electric vehicles cut emissions by 100%. By 2027, more than 90% of the Metropolitan Bus fleet, which includes 2,127 buses across directly and indirectly managed services, is expected to be sustainable, with 620 vehicles classed as zero-emission.
The renewal also covers Barcelona's metropolitan tourist bus service, which is owned by AMB. The organisation says its main aim is full electrification of that network, which has more than 100 vehicles. For background on metropolitan transport policy, see our news coverage.
AMBici, the metropolitan public bike service, is also expanding. In 2025 it recorded more than two million journeys, a 27% increase on 2024, while user numbers rose 45% from 16,388 to 23,809. The service, which operates in 15 municipalities, extended its hours last summer to run from 5am to 2am. AMB has received more than €7.7 million from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union through Next Generation EU, for the project.
Charging infrastructure has also grown, from 10 to 81 charging stations across 33 metropolitan municipalities. The network includes 59 fast-charging points and 22 semi-fast points, 12 of them solar-powered. The paid service runs through the Electrolineres AMB app and has more than 33,000 registered users. Since launch, it has recorded about 15,000 charges a month. AMB says the stations were co-financed by European Regional Development Fund subsidies, and more details are available on the AMB website.
AMB also regulates shared electric motorcycles under a metropolitan licence. Three companies, Cooltra, Acciona and Yego, hold the licence. A fleet of 5,950 vehicles, including motorcycles and mopeds, operates across eight municipalities in Barcelonès and Baix Llobregat. Their location can be checked in real time through the AMB Mobilitat and SMOU apps, as well as the operators' own apps. AMB says the model has recorded 4.5 million journeys in two years and is the largest regulation of its kind in Europe.
