Commentary
While the political battle rages on over mandates for consumer purchases of electric vehicles, Canadian municipalities have been going all-in on electric buses, and it hasn’t gone well. Despite the failures of electric bus fleets in numerous North American cities, local governments continue to commit to large-scale electric bus purchases. Calgary’s recent commitment to spend nearly half a billion dollars on a fleet of electric buses is one of the latest and largest expenditures in Canada.
Civic administrations and politicians have been going through the motions of due diligence on electric bus purchases, yet they ignore the negative results of their trials. The push for electric bus fleets appears ideological rather than practical….