TransLink to introduce renewable diesel into its bus fleet

In Canada, TransLink is introducing renewable diesel into its bus fleet as a cleaner fuel option, in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Surrey Transit Centre will be the first bus depot to transition and will be fully fuelled with renewable diesel by January 1, 2024. With this change, TransLink will be reducing total greenhouse gas emissions by 6,550 metric tons or five per cent of TransLink’s total emissions – the equivalent of removing 1,900 passenger vehicles off the road.

Additional transit centers are planned to be converted to renewable diesel beginning next year. The use of renewable diesel as a fuel source for the West Coast Express and SeaBus is also being studied.