By 2030 Translink, which oversees public transport in Greater Vancouver, Canada, wants to add over 460 battery-electric buses to the transit system in British Columbia and reach zero emissions in all bus operations by 2040. In the shorter term, TransLink targets adding 155 electric buses to the current fleet by late 2025.

The company’s plan is also looking to install charging infrastructure stations. TransLink will be building out the new Marpole Transit Centre by 2027 to include charging for 350 battery-electric buses. The plans also include renovating the Hamilton, Port Coquitlam, and Burnaby transit centres to charge and store battery-electric buses.

Transport decarbonisation is happening in British Columbia