Thank you very much.
Electrification will be coming to the bus industry in the future, but when we think of electrification on a motorcoach, we have to think of range and we have to think of battery storage. The battery storage is underneath our bus, where you usually see suitcases or parcels when it comes to the line-run business.
An electric motorcoach would not be practical when you cannot travel the kilometres that we do on a daily basis for range and we literally have no storage underneath our bus. Again, passengers and parcels have to use that storage.
The other thing is that today we could say that a brand new diesel bus is approximately $725,000. You might be looking at $1.2 million for an electric motorcoach. Pricing alone is another contributing factor that would suggest that electric motorcoaches for line runs are not practical today. However, I could turn that around in terms of our public transit operation in greater Charlottetown. I could tell you that electrification for public transit on municipal streets is practical. There is government funding to help on the pricing, and you certainly have your range, but it's the public transit infrastructure fund that is driving electrification at the municipal level.
As I said in my opening remarks, public transit on provincial highways should be treated no differently from public transit on municipal streets.