Edmonton could quit buying diesel buses by 2020: transit chief

Electric buses on the market today are good enough to run the whole day on just one charge, which means Edmonton could kick its diesel habit within three years, the city’s head of transit said Tuesday.
The competition to supply Edmonton’s first 40 electric buses closes Sept. 12 and they’ll be delivered in early 2019, as soon as the new northeast transit garage is built and ready to charge them, said Edmonton Transit chief Eddie Robar.
The city is designing upgrades to the south