Electric buses – it’s an expensive shift

Converting the city bus fleet to electric doesn’t only mean buying expensive vehicles, but refitting the STM’s bus garages at great expense to look after them.

I was thinking when posting the recent story about the new fleet of electric bendy buses coming for the Pie-IX bus lane that these new slow-recharging vehicles would also need a garage on or near the line. Pie-IX is not specifically mentioned in Thursday’s billion-dollar story, though it may be implied in the mention of a new garage in Hochelaga.