This in part of a series of posts on the presentation given by Lisa Hinz at the SacRT Board Meeting on 2025-07-28. The audio accompanying the presentation slides is key to understanding them, so we recommend that you also view the meeting recording on YouTube. This will be the last post on this topic today. … Continue reading STAR responses to Hinz 2025-07-28 presentation #7
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hydrogen?
SacRT received a Federal Transit Administration grant of $77M to purchase hydrogen fuel cell buses and create a new bus maintenance facility at McClellan which will include a hydrogen fueling station. The grant and publicity highlights and keeps using the term "zero emission buses (ZEB)". The buses are zero emission, at the point of use, … Continue reading hydrogen?
SacRT electric or hydrogen?
After being all-in on battery electric buses, SacRT is now considering hydrogen fuel cell buses as well. SacRT is hardly alone in this. Long transit routes, or operations challenged by weather extremes, may be better suited for hydrogen than battery electric. Though the quality of electric buses was low initially, it appears that most of … Continue reading SacRT electric or hydrogen?
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 