How many electric buses does the TTC have
The Toronto Transit Commission, the transit agency for the largest city in Canada, runs more than 2,000 buses in total, the largest public transit fleet in the country. It grows its battery electric fleet, buses that run on batteries instead of diesel, the same way transit agencies everywhere do. It orders new buses in batches and converts bus garages, the buildings where buses are stored and charged overnight, to run electric chargers instead of diesel pumps. How many electric buses does the TTC have right now. More than 100 as of July 2025, up from 60 before its most recent order. A further 340 battery electric buses are on order, and the agency says all 340 will arrive by the second quarter of 2026, bringing the total to 400.
The first bar is counted as of September 2024 by source 3. The second bar is counted as of July 2025 by source 5. The third bar is a stated target for the second quarter of 2026, not a measured count.
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| Running, before the order | 60 |
| Running, July 2025 | 100 |
| Target, second quarter 2026 | 400 |
The order is funded by 700 million dollars
The 340 bus order and the charging stations it needs are funded by 700 million dollars from the City of Toronto and the Government of Canada together. That money is paying for charger installations at 7 bus garages. It is separate from a wider plan by the agency to electrify 8 bus garages over 15 years, part of a target for the whole fleet, covering hybrid and diesel buses too, to reach 100% zero emissions by 2040 or sooner.
Jamaal Myers, chair of the TTC board, put the target this way.
Our goal is to run a transit system that customers can be proud of, and zero emission vehicles are the future of sustainable transit.
Jamaal Myers, chair of the TTC board. Source 5.
Toronto fits inside a national shift
Nationally, Canada counted 5,459 zero emission buses, meaning buses that run on a battery or a hydrogen fuel cell instead of diesel, in transit fleets from February to July 2024, according to a database kept by the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium, an independent nonprofit research group known as CUTRIC. Reading its report directly, since a press release describing the update could not be retrieved, shows 5,370 of those buses run on batteries and only 89 run on hydrogen fuel cells. Ontario transit agencies lead the country in battery electric bus numbers at every stage of deployment, a finding stated in the report itself.
This counts every transit agency across Canada for February to July 2024, not Toronto alone, since it sits beside a Toronto specific chart.
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| Battery electric buses | 5,370 |
| Fuel cell buses | 89 |
400 buses is still a small share of the whole fleet
Even at 400, battery electric buses would still be a small share of that larger fleet of more than 2,000 buses. About 30% of the fleet is hybrid electric as of July 2025, a technology that still burns diesel part of the time. A full switch to zero emissions across the whole fleet, covering hybrid and diesel buses too, is not due until 2040 or sooner.
Olivia Chow, mayor of Toronto, said this about the buses on order.
We can't wait to see all of them on the road.
Olivia Chow, mayor of Toronto. Source 3.