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Transport committee Okay.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee —of buying an electric vehicle being two times—
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee We don't use passenger cars, so all I can say is that the commercial fleet that we are buying—perhaps in part because it has maybe not had as much investment as the Chevy Volt has.... There are not an awful lot of commercial, really large, electric vehicle users. Perhaps that's w
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee It's three times, yes.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Well, 300%, is that the same as three times?
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee It's okay. It just seemed like a lot.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Look, for example, at the eStar, which is one of our most recent battery electric vehicle purchases. It's a Class 2c-3 electric truck. It's very much like a parcel deliveries step van. The retail price of that unit—one that's not upfitted—is $150,000 U.S. That's just the going pr
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Transit Connects?
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Yes, it's roughly the same. I believe the Ford Transit Connect—I'm not sure what its market price is, but it's somewhere around $65,000 for us.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Pretty much.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee No, that's electric.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee No, no, that's the eStar, the larger truck.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee I have to say that I'm really not able to answer that and I haven't calculated those things.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Actually, in London, Waterman Avenue depot 5 is the only facility in Canada right now that has natural gas equipped vehicles. We have 10 Ford Transit Connect vehicles in London. We selected that location because it was used a number of years ago for natural gas experimentation as
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark
Transport committee Are we speaking of natural gas or propane, or any?
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Steve Clark