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Transport committee  Do you mean turbocharging or the batteries themselves?

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  As I said, if we don't want to kill innovation, it's about being able to have demonstration testing and having some help to make sure that—in this country—we go quickly in the funnelling and get to what the best solution is that will fit everybody, so we can benefit from that in

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  I am familiar with Trois-Rivières, the people who lead it and the bus fleet. In the case of Trois-Rivières, I don't think bus rapid transit would be a good solution, because the city doesn't have the population density. I think work should focus more on vehicles and emissions as

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  No, not currently. Now, it's about the first ones that were put into service. Since they are the first ones, everyone looks at them because they are available. No, we aren't seeing any getting ahead of the others. There are different very good ideas. They have to be implemented t

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  For BRT?

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  Today's internal combustion engine works well in the BRT. Any propulsion solution you're going to take will benefit from the BRT. So going at a faster pace with fewer stops—stop and go—and travelling with a lot of people.... Of course today if you want to have a high rate of tra

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  We also have a 40-foot and it has over 100-kilometre autonomy, but it requires a lot of batteries. It's always a trade-off, the weight of batteries you carry and the autonomy you want.

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  We could need help in getting to a standardization. It's difficult to look at what's important, what we should focus on, and then what we should standardize, and then go faster in the funnel maybe. The way to do that is to have different trials, to test stuff. That's pretty diffi

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  This is an ongoing question. We talked about diesel earlier. Concerning internal-combustion engines, there will be changes in the sense that the size of the engine will always decrease. In spite of that, we will keep it to maintain that autonomy. As you can see, out of today's ve

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  First of all, we need to establish a charging standard. A lot of money will be spent on different technologies. Today, there are Beta, VHS and Blu-ray formats. There isn't enough energy on board and we need to add some. But how do we do that? It's as if you couldn't put the same

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  It's 800 in Canada.

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  I would say that at this time more than 70% of the buses are supplied to Canada.

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  In 2010 it was probably 800.

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  In 2010 we had something like more than 150 hybrids. The rest of them were a mix of diesel, 40-foot and 60-foot, so regular and articulated buses.

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen

Transport committee  Regarding innovative technologies, we can ask ourselves three questions. How can we better use what we already have today? How can we better use the technologies available elsewhere in the world? Finally, how can we maximize our investments in research and development? Concernin

June 5th, 2012Committee meeting

René Allen