We’re in the market for your new rides

As our old diesel and gas-powered buses reach the end of life, we are diversifying and modernizing our fleet. This means adding vehicles powered by a number of different sources, including compressed natural gas (CNG), electric and gas-powered vehicles, in addition to diesel.

By replacing end-of-life diesel buses with battery electric buses (BEBs), we’ll provide clean, quiet, and comfortable rides for Calgarians with less pollution, noise, and exhaust and lower operating costs.

We spend a lot of time on the road. Based on Council direction, we are incorporating lower-emission technology, an important step to reducing Calgary Transit's carbon footprint and diversifying our fleet.

We’ve timed our fleet transition and battery electric vehicle purchases to take advantage of funding contributions from other levels of government and keep pace with Canada’s changing bus vehicle manufacturing industry.

By 2027, our fleet will primarily consist of CNG, battery electric, and gasoline-powered vehicles, with a significant reduction in diesel vehicles from 48 per cent to approximately 20 per cent of the total fleet. 

40-foot BEBs

On October 3, we posted a request for proposals (RFP) seeking up to 180 zero-emission 40-foot BEBs that have proven public transit service hours in climatic conditions like Calgary. We plan to award the contract in early 2025 and expect our new 40-foot BEBs to arrive in late 2026 and hit the road before the end of 2028.

Battery electric shuttles

We plan to post an RFP to buy five to seven battery electric shuttle buses by year-end. Our pilot provides an opportunity to evaluate how battery electric shuttle buses will perform in Calgary and assess their potential to replace, over the long term, our existing gasoline-powered shuttle bus fleet. We’re targeting to put the electric shuttles in service as early as mid-2026.

Conventional vehicles

This year’s purchase of conventional vehicles includes 120 40-foot CNG buses, 160 gas-powered community shuttle buses and, possibly, more 40-foot diesel buses.