The four new electric buses will be in circulation by January, 2023. (Photo courtesy srcity.org)
Santa Rosa Transit’s CityBus program rolled out four new all-electric buses last week, another step in the city’s goal to achieve an all-electric fleet by 2040.
The buses were funded by two competitive grant awards totaling $3 million from the Federal Transit Administration’s Buses and Bus Facilities grant program and matching funds from the state Transportation Development Act, according to CityBus officials.
“Public transit is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions nationwide,” wrote city transit officials in announcing the new vehicles. “This is why transitioning to an all-electric fleet by 2040 is important to reducing our GHG production.”
Transit officials project that the additional state and federal funding Santa Rosa Transit has received to date will enable CityBus to transition over half its fleet to electric buses by 2025. Five additional electric buses will be on order as of January 2023, with another six buses to be ordered in 2024, they said.
The new electric buses were manufactured by Proterra and are powered by Sonoma Clean Power’s EverGreen program, which generates renewable clean energy from the Geysers geothermal power plant and other local solar projects. Visit srcity.org for more information.
