Toronto - 20 autobuze electrice și 325 de hibride

10 autobuze electrice New Flyer de 12 metri vor intra în serviciu în Toronto, într-un proiect pilot derulat de autorități. Comanda cuprinde și o opțiune pentru încă 30, pe următorii 2 ani.  Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) vrea ca din 2025 să cumpere numai autobuze cu 0 emisii, iar până în 2040 să aibă o flotă "all-electric", potrivit SustainableBUS.

Link: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/electric ... mission/

10 autobuze electrice, modelul Catalyst E2 au fost comandate și de la Proterra. Odată cu cele 10 autobuze, aproape 5 milioane de litri de combustibil vor fi salvate de-a lungul serviciului și 1 milion de kilogramde de CO2 vor fi salvate anual, conform SustainableBUS.

Link: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/ele ... 2-model/

Tot TTC a comandat și 325 autobuze hibride Nova Bus, din care 55 vor sosi până la finalul anului. Primul autobuz efectuează deja teste. Bateriile și propulsia este construită de BAE System. Toate sistemele de la bord (uși, power steering, etc.) sunt controlate 100% electric.

Guvernul canadian și orașul Toronto investesc $370 milioane în aceste autobuze, pentru a sprijini autoritățile din Toronto să taie emisiile cu 80% până în 2025, potrivit SustainableBUS.

Link: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/hybrid/t ... elivery/

Three hundred new electric buses could soon be coming to TTC’s fleet.

The Toronto Transit Commission is looking to massively increase its existing 60 electric busses, discussing the proposed 300 additions at its upcoming April 14 board meeting.

“Our TTC has been a leader when it comes to creating an environmentally friendly bus fleet and transit system,” said Mayor John Tory. “Moving to greenlight the purchase of 300 more eBuses will ensure that we continue to expand our green fleet.”

The TTC already approved a $550 million procurement strategy back in October 2020, outlining plans for the electric buses, the procurement of 300 hybrid buses, 70 Wheel-Trans buses, and 13 streetcars.

Toronto’s first 60 electric buses hit the streets in June 2019. In October of the following year, the TTC began evaluating the service quality of the eBuses.

Although the analysis results, released on Thursday, found that all three types of electric buses procured either required improvements or fell below the performance of the hybrid buses, the TTC believes that the buses’ manufacturers have been able to address these issues and are confident going forward with more buses.

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“The introduction of eBuses in our transit system has helped us move forward with our climate change goals and our plan to reduce our carbon emissions in the city,” Tory said. “We know we need to do more work on this quickly. The discussions at the next board meeting are a demonstration of the commitment the TTC has to becoming greener and cleaner and the continued work that is being done to build up and modernize our transit system across Toronto.”

The electric buses, once approved for procurement, are expected to be delivered between 2023 and 2025.

The TTC also plans to make the entire fleet of buses zero-emissions by 2040, eliminating all diesel emissions and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 250,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.

“I am so proud of the continued innovation by our team as we work towards a greener, more sustainable future,” said TTC CEO Rick Leary. “As one of North America’s largest transit organizations, we are pleased to lead the charge towards full-electrification and help pave the way for other cities and agencies to adopt or advance their green bus programs.”

The TTC Board meeting will take place on April 14 at 10 am and can be live streamed on the TTC Youtube channel.

Sursa: Toronto Urbanized

The Toronto Transit Commission, which already operates North America’s largest electric bus fleet is looking to spend $300 million on their green fleet expansion, which includes key partnerships with Toronto Hydro and Ontario Power Generation
Editor’s Note: this story was updated to reflect OPG and Toronto Hydro’s role as described in the TTC’s 2021 board report.

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is taking a leap forward in its race to total fleet electrification by adding another 300 electric buses to existing 60 pure electric vehicle fleet, which is already the largest of any city in North America.

The latest purchases, which carries a $300-million price tag, also comes just six months after the TTC approved procurement of an additional 300 hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) buses for $390 million.

The HEVs will begin to arrive in 2022, followed by the fully electric vehicles in 2023, with the aim of having all 300 of the newest buses in service by early 2025.

TTC Commissioner and city councillor Brad Bradford broke the news in a tweet: “Toronto is home to North America’s largest fleet of electric buses — and it’s growing! Today…we authorized the procurement of 300 e-buses to bolster our surface transit network and move us forward on our goal of a zero-emissions fleet by 2040.”

In a follow-up interview with Electric Autonomy Canada, Bradford describes the purchase as “a very significant and monumental order. It demonstrates our commitment at the TTC to being a leader in long-range battery electric buses.”

Building on long-term plan
The expansion is further realization of the TTC’s Green Bus Technology Plan, which previously paved the way for the 60 electric bus purchase. In that deal, the TTC bought 20 buses each from three different vendors: Proterra, New Flyer and BYD Canada. In 2019, it put the first of those vehicles into operation, with a plan to monitor their performance in a head-to-head evaluation, the preliminary results of which were released this week.

That study, looking at nine different criteria, found New Flyer’s NFI XE40 was the only fully electric bus model to meet or exceed the TTC’s targets in four key domains: system compatibility; accessibility; vehicle performance; and vendor performance.

“[W]hile improvements are required to all eBus platforms, all manufacturers have demonstrated a commitment to making the required improvements to our existing fleet and to their next generation of long-range battery-electric buses,” reads the TTC’s report on the evaluation. “The lessons learned to date found no ‘show stoppers’ to the TTC’s progress toward full-fleet electrification.”

But there are no clear indicators drawn from the report in terms of which model of buses the TTC will be buying. The Request For Proposal (RFP) to fill the upcoming 300 bus order from the TTC is available to all vendors and Bradford says the transit agency is “open” to all options available on the market. What is indicated in terms of buying strategy is the TTC is coordinating with other transit agencies to benefit from a single electric bus “procurement specification with the immediate benefit of reducing cost through economies of scale.”


The performance baseline used to compare the three electric buses to was set by the TTC’s Nova HEV buses, the first of which went into service in 2018 and have, by the TTC’s account, exceeded in all nine criteria categories. The TTC has 225 HEVs from Nova Bus, currently, in its fleet.

Bradford said all of the vehicles’ engines performed well in the environment and didn’t struggle with any of the more harsh weather Toronto gets throughout the year. The head-to-head evaluation demonstrated electric bus motors perform well. Generally the issues in the report arose with body corrosion and accessibility challenges — both of which Bradford is confident can be remedied.

“The nice thing about this is that it is an evolving technology. So even what was on offer in the marketplace five years ago is different than what’s available today and it will be different than what is available in two or three years. The range is increasing, the charge time is decreasing, reliability and performance of these vehicles is improving.”

Three-way partnership
A critical element of any fleet’s expansion is its ability to scale charging infrastructure simultaneously with vehicle procurement. On a project this big, the TTC saw its natural partners to be Toronto Hydro-Electric System Ltd., a utility, and Ontario Power Generation, the province’s largest energy producer.

Toronto Hydro is responsible for the “responsible for upgrading the electrical supply to TTC properties” while OPG “co-invests, designs, builds, owns and operates electrification infrastructure on TTC property,” according to the TTC’s 2021 board report.

Previous reporting by Electric Autonomy last fall took a deeper look at OPG’s fleet support services, in which the TTC partnership was referenced. Bradford credits the partnership with making the TTC’s transition thus far a success and he says the future for the agency is green.

“We’re thrilled here at the TTC to be leading on this [electric transition] front. It brings accountability to our commitment to reducing our greenhouse gases as a transit agency,” says Bradford. “I’m bullish. I’m optimistic about the future of battery-charged electric buses.”

Sursa: Electric Autonomy

TORONTO — The Toronto Transit Commission has placed an order for 110 low-floor transit buses with the subsidiary of NFI Group for an undisclosed price.

The coach manufacturer says up to 30 buses will be delivered by ARBOC Specialty Vehicles, LLC this year with the remaining 80 vehicles added in 2022.

The order will be used to update the TTC’s Wheel-Trans fleet which is used for seniors and persons with disabilities.

The contract was placed through ARBOC’s Canadian distributor, Creative Carriage Ltd., using the Government of Ontario’s Metrolinx Transit Procurement Initiative.

The contract from Canada’s largest transit authority follows one in 2019 for up to 40 Xcelsior 40-foot battery-electric buses, of which half have already been delivered.

The TTC is North America’s third-largest transit system with subways, streetcars and more than 140 bus routes using about 2,400 vehicles that serve nearly 1.7 million passengers on an average weekday

Sursa: Global News

BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) cu ajutorul benzilor dedicate reprezintă o componentă esențială a strategiei de dezvoltare a transportului public din Toronto până în 2030. Asta pentru că este o soluție ieftină și eficientă, quick-win, față de proiectele de metrou sau metrou ușor, ce sunt foarte scumpe. Iată reportajul:

Urmarind reportajul se simte clar perspectiva americana asupra TP: "Nu e profitabil, are pierderi, n-avem bani, samd".

Dar daca intr-adevar nu-s fonduri, poate ar fi o solutie sa nu vopseasca zeci sau sute de km de benzi bus in rosu, ci numai in intersectii sau in punctele problematice, in rest, marcajele ar trebui sa-si faca treaba.