{"id":181945,"date":"2024-02-03T08:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/regina-steps-up-adding-53-electric-buses-to-its-public-transit-fleet"},"modified":"2024-02-03T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:23:56","slug":"regina-steps-up-adding-53-electric-buses-to-its-public-transit-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/regina-steps-up-adding-53-electric-buses-to-its-public-transit-fleet","title":{"rendered":"Regina steps up, adding 53 electric buses to its public transit fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/regina-steps-up-adding-53-electric-buses-to-its-public-transit-fleet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan\u2019s capital city is moving forward with plans to electrify its Regina Transit fleet, signing a five-year contract with Nova Bus to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/01\/21\/iveco-scores-biggest-electric-bus-deal-yet\/\">53 battery electric city buses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subsidiary of the Volvo Group based in Quebec, Nova Bus manufactures long-range electric bus options with absolutely massive battery packs \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/novabus.com\/transit-solutions\/electromobility\/\">up to 564 kWh on its biggest models<\/a>, with the option of DC fast-charging or charging through overhead wires.<\/p>\n<p>The first installment of its larger order will see seven of its <a href=\"https:\/\/novabus.com\/transit-solutions\/electromobility\/\">LFSe+ 40-foot<\/a>, long-range buses delivered to the City of Regina early in 2025 at a cost of $10.8 million (Canadian). The city will follow that with 13 more buses later in 2025 at a cost of $22.4 million, with an additional $21.2 million set to be spent on facility upgrades and infrastructure to support the electric buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan\u2019s capital city is moving forward with plans to electrify its Regina Transit fleet, signing a five-year contract with Nova Bus to acquire 53 battery electric city buses. A subsidiary of the Volvo Group based in Quebec, Nova Bus manufactures long-range electric bus options with absolutely massive battery packs \u2014 up to 564 kWh on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}