Saskatoon E-Transit Pilot to Test How Technology Handles Winter Weather

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Sept 24, 2020

The City of Saskatoon test drove the first electric bus in its public transit fleet this past July. If the pilot project is successful, the city plans to replace 10 of its conventional buses with electric buses every year. The total project cost is estimated to be $533,600 of which $234,300 is funded from the Green Municipal Fund (GMF), a fund financed by the Government of Canada and administered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM). 

This project will include a strong focus on how an electric bus will perform in Saskatchewan’s very cold winter weather, which will be of interest to many other Canadian communities with longer, colder winters like ours. Also, Saskatoon Transit’s collaboration on this project with the Saskatchewan Research Council will be valuable to replicate it and share that knowledge across the province. 

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