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In its 2020 Strategic Plan, the STM determined it would acquire only electric vehicles as of 2025 (the métro has been 100% electric since 1966), thereby helping to reach the GHG reduction objectives of the Québec government (25%) and the City of Montréal (30%). Several projects aimed at testing different technologies in our operating conditions, while assessing their impact on planning and operability, are already in the works. Of them, two are particularly noteworthy: the creation of a network of dynamic recharging electric buses, inspired by trolleybus technology, the only type of proven electric bus available today that meets our performance standards, with the first vehicles deployed in the Saint-Michel corridor by 2017. Another, Cité Mobilité, a showcase project in which the STM would operate three standard 12-metre, 100% electric buses made by Nova Bus (fast-charching pre-production model) over a three-year period, from 2016 to 2018 inclusively, with a non-passenger testing phase in 2015.
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