Commercial vehicles make up a tinier fraction of B.C.\u0027s commercial transportation fleet.
“We know we’re in a business that we need to do better and we need to sort of embrace the future,” said Paul Merrick, Purolator’s general manager for Western Canada.
Transit buses, such as TransLink’s electric trolleys, comprised the single biggest group of commercial vehicles at 244, but the number also includes low-speed utility vehicles such as yard trucks, forklifts and ice-surfacers. Vehicles, such as buses, “aren’t going to stop mid-route and charge a battery,” Lovegrove said, but for applications with shorter duty cycles, EV use is more practical.
“I’m the eternal optimist that this is all going to happen,” Lovegrove said, especially with governments building mandates around zero-emission adoption.
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