Transport committee  Just to reassure you with a final note on this, the study about the total greenhouse effect of every technology is taking care, in the case of electricity, of even the impact of the barrage and the battery recycling from all the cycles. There are greenhouse gases produced by elec

Transport committee  Yes. The study was made by a group of experts at École Polytechnique de Montréal and we have a preliminary report. Before it can be published, this report needs to be challenged by international experts. That is ongoing now. When I said there were no emissions from electric bus

Transport committee  A lot of promises have been made about the induction system. A lot of things have been shown and a lot of ideas about it have been bandied about. We are working on this project and we are trying to make it work with our partners, which are Bombardier and Nova Bus. We have seen t

Transport committee  For the electric buses, as I explained, the problem is not the traction, it's not that technology, but only the batteries. If you want to have some range, you have to have a smaller bus. That's why electric buses in Europe today are only smaller buses, 9 metres long. But within t

Transport committee  I showed you that STM is aiming to get a 12-metre bus with a decent range by 2025. This is not out of nowhere: it's a consensus that we have with international experts from the industry and from our involvement in UITP, a consensus with STM and other big operators around the worl

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. We share all the demonstration projects with the AVT group, where Mr. Carignan is the director. We have meetings several times a year. We share our experiences, our good and bad efforts and our results. We have agreed not to conduct the same demonstration twice i

Transport committee  No. The ecolobuses in Quebec City are very small and very limited. You are familiar with them. I believe their maximum speed is 33 km/h. That is tough on the hills. In fact, the midibuses are as wide as normal buses. They are bigger than the ecolobuses. I believe those buses can

Transport committee  No. Actually, we only saw 12-metre electric buses in Shanghai. These buses were only able to do a hundred kilometres with the battery charge. They have another type of 12-metre bus in Shanghai that they recharge at every stop. They have a rig on the roof that goes up and connects

Transport committee  The four times is not in comparison with diesel buses, but electric buses in Montreal. You always have to look at this for your specific application. Montreal is very far away from a gas source and we're readily plugged into very clean electricity. That's what you have to compare

Transport committee  I could provide you a study comparing a Euro 3 bus with a diesel and natural gas bus, the same bus, and you will see that it produces more GHG emissions.

Transport committee  As Mr. Carignan explained, a bus running on natural gas has a vent that allows gas to escape. There is no exhaust on an electric bus. Consequently operating an electric bus in downtown Montreal generates no pollution. And there is not just air pollution; there is also the noise.

Transport committee  No, the existing railway corridors in Montreal are already used by suburb trains. You don't have enough people around those tracks to use a tramway there efficiently. A tramway has more capacity than a trolley bus, because a tramway can be six cars or eight cars in length. It's l

Transport committee  I have to correct you. They're not contactless. The one in Bordeaux has a power pickup in the ground. That would not work in the snow and ice in Montreal, that's for sure. The other system is from Alstom, and it also touches the ground. They would have to show me that it works w

Transport committee  No, magnetic...is too expensive.

Transport committee  Yes, but with a little more power.