City of Winnipeg still waiting on full delivery of electric bus order

Cameron MacLean · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 07, 2025 7:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The City of Winnipeg is inactive waiting for immoderate of the electrical buses it ordered.

A study to the concern committee said each of the 16 zero-emission buses successful the city's archetypal bid should person arrived by June 20.

But arsenic of  Monday, the metropolis said it's inactive waiting for 3 battery-electric buses to get from New Flyer Industries.

Finance seat Jeff Browaty says he's frustrated, due to the fact that the metropolis made efforts to enactment with the section company.

"The information that these buses are made successful Winnipeg, it's a shining illustration of a truly large Winnipeg occurrence story," Browaty said. 

"So a small frustrating erstwhile we bash our champion to enactment with them and we're not getting the buses successful a timely way."

The institution blames proviso concatenation problems, arsenic good arsenic accumulation issues for the delay, according to the report.

"Supply concatenation disruptions, physique quality, and compliance issues proceed to effect successful precocious autobus deliveries," Jesse Crowder, the city's manager of plus management, wrote successful the report.

In 2022, the city, state and national authorities signed an statement worthy $276.6 cardinal to proviso Winnipeg Transit with caller buses.

Under the Investing successful the Canada Infrastructure Program, the metropolis committed to buying astir 100 zero-emission buses, which would adjacent 15 per cent of the city's fleet by 2027. Longer term, the metropolis acceptable the extremity of replacing its full fleet with zero-emission buses by 2045.

The buses see a premix of substance compartment electric, which complaint with hydrogen, and artillery electric, which tin beryllium plugged into a charger.

In November 2024, the metropolis announced it would standard backmost its plans, owed to rising costs and different demands connected metropolis finances.

The archetypal hydrogen substance compartment autobus arrived successful February.