The nation’s largest public bus system rolled out its first all-electric articulated bus Sunday under a plan to convert New York City’s transit agency to a zero-emissions fleet by 2040.
The new vehicle was deployed on one of Manhattan’s busiest crosstown routes, the 14th Street busway. By March, the route will have 15 electric-articulated buses, which are 60-foot-long vehicles connected in the middle with a joint. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to spend $1.1 billion to modify depots for electric operations and purchase about 500 electric buses for all five boroughs under its 2020-2024 Capital Plan.
The transit agency currently operates 10 electric standard buses that are leased under a three-year pilot program launched in 2018 to test the technology. The vehicles are quieter than conventional buses in addition to having no tailpipe emissions.
The buses’ batteries are estimated to operate for 50 to 90 miles, or half a day, on a three-hour charge.
(AP)
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so, put a bus on the road for half a day, bring it to the depot for 3 hours, and send it out for the rest of the day? And what do you do for those 3 hours?
Answer: buy extra buses so you can rotate them in and out.
but you are creating pollution when you build those extra buses.
this may help eliminate city smog, where it is an issue, but probably won’t achieve the lofty goal of reducing carbon emissions