Vision comes with cost of $100M in today’s dollars
VALLEJO — Solano County Transit, like other transportation agencies in California, must reach a zero-emission target by 2040.
To do that, SolTrans must convert what Pat Carr, the General Services manager for the agency, said will likely be a fleet of 70 to 80 local and commuter buses into zero-emission coaches, likely electric-battery vehicles.
She calls the buses the “cool, sexy” part of the changeover that gets a lot of attention.
“But if you don’t have the infrastructure, you are looking at cool, sexy bricks,” Carr said.
SolTrans hopes to break ground in March on an $11 million infrastructure project, but will likely have to spend triple that to have the infrastructure needed to support vehicles that will meet the 2040 emission target.
The cost of 80 buses, minus the five in the fleet now and four more that have…
Imagine hydrogen fueling station along Interstate 80
