City of Ottawa Transpo's Electric Buses Performing As Well As Diesel Buses After 2 Years: Report

17 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from CTV News

"City of Ottawa's Transit Commission says that OC Transpo's electric buses are performing as well as the existing diesel fleet...The report notes that the four buses put into service in February 2022 are nearing 500,000 kilometres of total service on the roads and have been performing successfully on revenue service routes longer than 10 hours and driving distances exceeding 200 kilometres on a regular basis."

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