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ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a futurist electric transit bus covered in circuitry on the streets of Vancouver with the mountains in the background

Canada’s Cities Deploying Electric Buses, Toying With Hydrogen

Canada’s transition to electric buses is gaining momentum, with numerous cities from west to east adopting zero-emission vehicles to enhance sustainability in public transit. While hydrogen has often been getting the attention, what’s really been happening is lots of electric buses. Let’s take a trip across the country. Victoria, located … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Winnipeg City Council looking at a hydrogen bus full of Canadian money on fire

New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a pair of scales labeled CUTA with a transit bus labeled "H2" on one scale and a transit bus covered in circuitry on the other.

Agenda Of Canadian CUTA Transit Conference Shows They Have Hydrogen On Brain Too

Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]