MTA begins testing electric buses

To its existing nearly 1,700 hybrid buses, more than 3,300 diesel buses, and 760 compressed natural gas buses, the MTA on Tuesday added three new city buses powered only by electricity. The MTA plans to phase in another seven electric buses in the next month as part of a three-year trial program testing this technology, which is in use in just 250 other individual all-electric city buses across the country.