page_title: Electric bus
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Electric bus / Transit use / Oceania / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Electric Bus in Sydney, Australia
context_page_description: An electric bus is a bus that is powered by electricity.
  Electric buses can store the electricity on board, or can be fed continuously from an external source.
  Buses storing electricity are majorly battery electric buses, in which the electric motor obtains energy from an on-board battery, although examples of other storage modes do exist, such as the gyrobus which uses flywheel energy storage.
  When electricity is not stored on board, it is supplied by contact with outside power sources. For example, overhead wires, as in the trolleybus, or with non-contact conductors on the ground, as in online electric vehicles.
  As of 2019, 99% of the battery electric buses in the world have been deployed in China, with more than 421,000 buses on the road, which is 17% of China's total bus fleet. For comparison, the US had 300, and Europe had 2,250.
context_section_description: In September 2017, Transport Canberra began operating two electric buses based at their Tuggeranong depot.
  Transport for New South Wales began a trial of electric buses on the South Coast before conducting a more expansive trial in region 4 in Sydney in 2019.
  Melbourne's first fully electric bus began carrying passengers on Route 246 between Elsternwick and Clifton Hill in October 2019. The body construction and fit out for the new bus was carried out in Dandenong by Volgren.
caption: Electric Bus in Sydney, Australia
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