California mandates 100-percent zero-emission bus fleet
Source: Associated Press
California mandates 100-percent zero-emission bus fleet
December 14, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California moved Friday to eliminate fossil fuels from its fleet of 12,000 transit buses, enacting a first-in-the-nation mandate that will vastly increase the number of electric buses on the road.
The California Air Resources Board voted to require that all new buses be carbon-free by 2029. Environmental advocates project that the last greenhouse-gas-emitting buses will phase out by 2040.
While clean buses cost more than the diesel and natural gas vehicles they’ll replace, advocates of the mandate say they have lower maintenance and fuel costs. Supporters hope creating demand for thousands of clean buses will bring down the price of those buses and eventually other heavy-duty vehicles like trucks.
California has 153 zero-emission buses on the road today with hundreds more on order. Most of them are electric, though technology also exists for buses powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
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