Last year, UTA and the University of Utah said that they had plans to purchase five new electric buses with the money they received from a federal grant. Three buses will run on UTA’s route 2 and the remaining two will operate on the U’s campus. The $5.4 million grant was announced last April, but there hasn’t been much news since then.
“We should receive the buses sometime in November or December of 2017, although I don’t know if they will be fully operational and implemented into our shuttle routes quite that fast,” said Shea Renner, with Commuter Services at the U.