As Serge said at the start of the presentation, the target is for 95% of trips to be done by electricity. So we are not talking about 95% of the vehicles, but about 95% of trips.
Currently in Quebec, half of public transit trips are done by vehicles powered by electricity. We are already at 50%. The Montreal metro transports people on electric power.
We are trying to introduce two heavy means of transportation in Montreal: the tramway and the trolleybus. These two modes of transport will be used for the six or seven busiest routes in the Montreal system. So we should make a jump of 20% or 25% with those two systems alone. They are proven technologies. This is not really a technological challenge since tramways and trolleybuses run everywhere. Money is the issue.
Then we should look at batteries. We do not have a choice since we will not be installing wires across Montreal Island to run the trolleybuses and definitely will not be installing rails across Montreal. So we have to look to rechargeable buses, and that is the objective of our research and development project. We want to try to increase the range of existing buses beyond what batteries currently permit.
Today you have to add a 6,000-kg battery to a normal 12-metre bus in order to have a 500-km range like a diesel bus. That is a really big challenge. It is a technological challenge for battery manufacturers.
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