Fun Facts
- Transportation is responsible for more than 37% of Nova Scotia's energy use
- Transportation accounts for more than 25% of Nova Scotia's greenhouse-gas emissions
- Public transit already provides substantial fuel savings and emissions reductions compared to the use of personal vehicles
- Hybrid buses could further increase fuel savings by up to 30%
- At the end of this 18-month trial, these buses could save more than 25,000 litres of fuel and cut greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 70,000 kilograms — that's the same as taking 14 cars off the road for one year!
Success Stories
- The Toronto Transit Commission has more 694 hybrid buses in its fleet, with some routes using 31% less fuel. That's more than 4 million litres of diesel fuel saved each year.
- OC Transpo in Ottawa currently has 97 hybrid buses on the road, and plans to have more than 175 by the end of 2010.
- Vancouver's public transit system, TransLink, just started using 180 hybrid buses. 39 of those buses were made by New Flyer, which is the same company that manufactured Halifax's hybrids.
