Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Ms Anne Graham:

I am very confident. Yes, we spoke about the fleet, particularly the double-decker fleet and whether one can achieve a fully electric double-decker fleet and get the range in terms of battery charging mechanisms. I am confident that the development of batteries will be such that we will get to have in place fully electric double-decker vehicles at some point but our initial move is to have a hybrid fleet, rather than a fully electric one. In our tests of a fully electric fleet, it would be a single-decker fleet that we would be looking to test initially with Bus Éireann and in smaller towns, I would imagine. That fleet is already available.

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