This all\u002Din commitment to e\u002Dbuses comes as confidence in the city\u0027s transit operation is rarer than some of the minerals in bus batteries.
In fact, no city in North America has made such a precipitous leap into the electric bus future. The Toronto Transit Commission operates 60 electric buses, the largest fleet on the continent. Toronto h
An electric bus loses range capacity when the temperature drops, just like other electric vehicles. The range can decline by more than one-third, which is significant when an electric bus can only run about 350 kilometres without being recharged, and that’s in ideal conditions. OC Transpo’s humble diesel buses log about 300 kilometres a day. The variable range of the electric buses will lead to some interesting scheduling challenges.
By comparison, the TTC bought 60 electric buses from three manufacturers, tested them for more than a year and produced aThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.The change to electric comes at a time when confidence in the city and its transit operation is rarer than some of the minerals that go into bus batteries.
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