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Originally Posted by roger1818
Trialing electric buses would be an expensive proposition for OC Transpo. As shown by their failed attempt at using hybrid buses, they are incapable of limiting buses to specific routes. As a result, they would need to build dozens of charging stations across the city to ensure every route on the network has access to one. Better to let other cities trial the buses and then have Ottawa go all in once the technology is proven.
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You only need charging stations across the city if you're doing short haul buses (for lack of a better term) like Nova's. There are long haul buses that can do up to 600km on a single charge. And if we got those we wouldn't need nearly as many charging stations.
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