The main obstacle to widespread adoption of electric buses, Ecology Ottawa says, is they have a higher up-front cost than diesel buses.
Randall said making the switch from diesel to electric would save "something in the region of" 17 to 20 tonnes of carbon per bus per year.
The province started a pilot program with 13 electric school buses in 2017 but when the Progressive Conservative government took power the next year it scrapped the program."It essentially meant that there was no data collected by the province from those buses that are still running now," she said. She said a federal program that provides 50 per cent of the cost of a bus and the charging infrastructure could be leveraged, but it will require provincial support.
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