Published: September 14, 2019
TransLink put its first battery-electric buses on the road. The two-and-a-half-year, $10-million project will see four battery-electric buses running on Route 100, powered by two charging stations at Marpole and 22nd Street stations. It takes about five minutes to charge a bus at each end of the 18-kilometre route, and the charge is good for about 100 kilometres.
Each bus will remove about 100 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and save $40,000 in fuel costs per year compared to a diesel bus.
Half of TransLink’s 1,500-bus fleet uses cleaner technology, including electric trolley buses, compressed natural gas buses and diesel-electric hybrid buses.
TransLink has also ordered six more battery-electric buses, which will come later next year and be added to Route 100. The goal is to make that route entirely electric.
Source: TransLink’s battery-electric buses hit the road in Metro Vancouver | Vancouver Sun