The city of San Luis Obispo held a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday, celebrating SLO Transit’s new electric buses.
The buses are part of the city’s climate action plan goal of becoming a carbon neutral community by 2035. They are also part of the California air resource board’s innovative clean transit regulation, which requires all public transit agencies to gradually transition to a 100-percent, zero-emission bus fleet by 2040.
The two buses for yesterday’s ceremony are only the start. The city will have its full fleet of eight zero-emission buses by 2026. According to the city, that would increase the percentage of zero-emission buses in SLO Transit’s fleet to 45%. By 2029, the ICT will require all new purchases by transit agencies to be zero-emission.
