NYC Transit and MTA bus have a combined fleet of about 5,700 buses for public transportation in New York City. The fleet currently consists of a mix of diesel, hybrid diesel and CNG (compressed natural gas) buses.
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The MTA now deploys 1,300 hybrid gas-electric buses, 399 of which sometimes operate solely on electric power in an EV mode. It pledges to purchase only electric buses by 2029. New York State budgeted $1.1 billion for buying 500 electric buses in the 2020-2024 capital plan.
25 Aug 2023The buses herald a new York Electric branding with the first vehicles operating from Sunday 27 August on the Service 4 route from the city centre to Acomb. Electric buses will then gradually be introduced on to selected corridors in the coming weeks with services 1 and 5 expected to follow soon.
Buying a hybrid bus costs roughly $300k more than buying a diesel equivalent, but factoring in the fuel savings, thanks to the hybrid system and the maintenance cost reduction, permits a cool $168k saving over the 12-year lifetime of the hybrid bus, compared to the lifetime cost of the diesel bus.
That breaks down to 5,269 battery electric buses and 211 fuel-cell electric buses. In 2021, there were 3,168 full-size transit battery electric buses and 129 fuel-cell electric buses. So even though fuel-cell electric buses are vastly outnumbered by battery electric buses, the former increased by 64% in 2022.
One of the MTA's existing 15 electric buses being charged at a depot in Manhattan. The MTA, which runs the largest public bus system in the country, plans to transition its entire fleet of 5,800 buses to battery-powered electric vehicles by 2040.
On another, her husband took their daughter to and from school using the city's public buses, which are air conditioned. (Ordinarily, they take her to school only in the morning, as their pick up time is too early, Stokes said.)
The top selling battery-electric bus manufacturersLet's take a look at the shortlist of top selling companies on the electric bus market 2022 in Europe. Yutong is leading with 479 registrations (+58% on 2021), followed by BYD-Alexander Dennis with 465 registrations (+24%), Mercedes with 405 registrations (+21).
Currently, the MTA runs about 15 electric buses in the city. The majority of its 5,800 buses still run on diesel or hybrid electric and diesel. Carroll says this phase of the project is only the beginning.