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ELECTRIFYING BUS ROUTES: INSIGHTS FROM MEXICO CITY’S EJE 8 SUR TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT Executive Mexico City’s Objectives Summary Eje 8 Sur route of the report KEY INSIGHTS This report aims to illustrate Mexico City is one of the world’s largest The study was part of a wider package of cities: its metropolitan area is home to nearly support provided by the C40 Cities Finance how a city can assess different It is critical that future bus 21 million people. Since 1946, a public transport Facility to Mexico City, to help develop the electric bus technology options, procurement decisions are agency, Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos Eje 8 Sur project technically and financially. based on the Total Cost of (STE), operates all trolleybuses and light-rail by providing a summary of an services in Mexico City. The technology assessment was conducted to 1 Ownership of the bus to compare the various technological options for analysis conducted in Mexico avoid choosing diesel STE has been mandated to establish a new bus buses on Eje 8 Sur. City by the C40 Cities Finance technologies because of route along Eje 8 Sur, a 22km corridor in the their lower upfront costs. south of the city. Trolleybus Line E operated Titled ‘Evaluation of Electric Buses for Eje 8 Sur’, Facility (CFF). This summary along Eje 8 Sur from the 1980s until 2009, when the assessment was carried out in collaboration explores how data on the buses’ it was discontinued. with Grütter Consulting. financial costs, environmental The technology assessment focused on the A previous report (‘Analysis of Alternative Bus Integrating environmental Technologies’) aimed to develop the capacity impacts and on existing westernmost 15.8 km of the corridor, between impacts into technology Mixcoac and Constitución de 1917. STE of city officials and the administration to infrastructure on the route led assessments can drastically currently operates eight trolleybus lines, but understand and choose between different to the choice of trolleybuses as 2 change the Total Cost of most trolleybuses covering the network are electric bus technologies. Ownership comparisons and over 30 years old. Both reports are available on the CFF website at: the best solution for the Eje 8 allow for consideration of https://www.c40cff.org/projects/mexico-city- Sur route. This summary aims to alternative bus technologies. eje-8 inform similar analyses by other cities and practitioners. Specific city characteristics and experiences can help to overcome the operational 3 risks associated with zero- emission technologies such as Mexico City’s experience with operating trolleybuses. Alternative financing mechanisms may be needed to allow cities to borrow 4 more and manage this debt to overcome the higher upfront costs. 22 33 Bus type Description Diesel – Euro IV Diesel engine with a Euro IV compliant engine. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF EJE 8 SUR Diesel – Euro VI Diesel engine with a Euro VI compliant engine. (MIXCOAC TO CONSTITUCIÓN DE 1917) Trolleybus Electric engine charged via overhead cables. TYPE OF BUSES Opportunity Charging – Ultrafast Electric engine which is charged at several stops along AVERAGE and specifications the route. 18KM/H BUS SPEED 1 18M articulated buses, capacity of 140 passengers, without AC/heating Opportunity Charging – Electric engine which is charged at the end End of route of the route. Battery Electric Bus – An electric bus with a battery charged a few MINIMUM PERCENTAGE OF 15.8 Daytime fast-charging times a day. BUS FLEET SIZE KM (without reserve fleet) RESERVE FLEET Battery Electric Bus – An electric bus with a battery large enough to operate 10%, i.e. 5 BUSES ROUTE Overnight Charging for a full day. Charging is done at night at the depot. 47 BUSES LENGTH Figure 2: Bus options analysed for the Eje 8 Sur route. MINIMUM 250KM PER WORKING DAY Environmental2 impacts DISTANCE DAILY 150KM PER NON-WORKING DAY BETWEEN MILEAGE BUSES 260 WORKING DAYS PER YEAR a) Emissions (CO2e, PM, NOX, and SO2) 2.5 MINS (HEADWAY) b) Noise pollution TOTALrequired including FLEET reserve fleet Financial TCO 52 BUSES a) Capital costs (buses and refuelling/charging infrastructure and associated costs) ANNUAL MILEAGE b) Net Present Value of operating costs, i.e. energy and maintenance costs, cumulative over 12 years PER BUS TOTAL ANNUAL MILEAGE OF BUSES Economic TCO a) Environmental impacts b) Financial TCO Figure 1: Main characteristics of the Eje 8 route 1 Mexico City’s buses do not require heating and cooling due to its moderate climate. Figure 3: Summary of the parameters used to evaluate the performance of buses. 2 73,000 KM 3,775,000 KM Cumulative over 12 years and not discounted over time. 44 55 Environmental Financial Total impacts Cost of Ownership Greenhouse gas emissions include The financial analysis considered: (a) direct emissions (‘tank to 1. Capital expenditure (CAPEX): This included wheel’) and (b) indirect emissions the upfront costs4 of the bus, any additional (‘well-to-tank’). infrastructure (e.g. chargers or land acquisition costs) and the cost of partial replacement of (a) Direct emissions are the emissions the investment, e.g. batteries. Diesel prices produced by the bus through fuel combustion. included the costs of building service stations. CAPEX did not include the cost of power (b) Indirect emissions are the emissions infrastructure, e.g. transformers which may resulting from the production of electricity be required to supply sufficient electricity. used to charge electric buses, or, in the case of Diesel buses were expected to last 12 years, diesel buses, the upstream emissions of fossil electric buses between 16 and 20 years and fuels (i.e. extraction, refining, transport, and trolleybuses 20 years: the longer lifetimes are distribution). due to the reduced vibrations rates and fewer The emissions accruing from the production moving parts. Factoring these longer lifetimes of electric buses and their batteries and into the TCO is essential to accurately compare of diesel buses were not included in the technology options. assessment: indirect emissions resulting from 2. Operating expenditure (OPEX): The the manufacturing of a diesel bus (120g CO2e\ analysis only included those that differ km) are estimated to be comparable to those between diesel technology and electric buses, of manufacturing an electric bus, including namely the costs of energy and maintenance. 3 batteries (130g CO2e\km) . Operating expenses such as the cost of drivers and management were excluded Local emissions (PM, NOX, SO2) from combustion and vehicle wear and tear are factored in, as well from the study since they do not differ across as the impacts of noise pollution. technologies. Electricity prices vary across electric bus technologies (e.g. depending on Unlike other costs, the environmental costs are the time of consumption and installed power): not discounted over time. a reference electricity price was calculated for each type of electric bus technology. The financial Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the sum of CAPEX (buses and infrastructure) and the Net Present Value of OPEX (discounted at a rate of 8% per year - the Weighted Average Capital Cost in the transport sector in Mexico). 3 Emissions are comparable due to the longer commercial lifecycle of an electric bus and the expected re-purposing of batteries at the end of their life. 4 Upfront costs are based on data available in 2017 on bus prices in Mexico. 66 77 Economic Total Cost Conclusions of Ownership of the report The economic Total Cost of • The costs of local emissions are calculated 1. Of all the bus technologies assessed for km) have a similar or slightly higher economic based on the Tier 3 methodology of the Eje 8 Sur, the analysis demonstrates that TCO than diesel bus technologies (see above). Ownership includes the costs 5 COPERT model . Only PM, NOX, SO2 are electric buses using opportunity charging Trolleybuses (1.37 USD/km) and night-charging associated with greenhouse gas assessed as they are the main pollutant have the lowest financial TCO of all assessed battery electric bus technologies (1.45 USD/ emissions, local emissions and resulting from diesel buses. bus technologies (0.98-0.99 USD/km), lower km) have the highest financial TCO of all the than or equal to diesel bus technologies (0.99- technologies assessed. noise pollution. • The costs of noise pollution are calculated 1.00 USD/km). Fast-charging battery electric based on international experience collected bus technologies have a higher financial TCO 3. While trolleybuses have much higher • The costs of greenhouse gas emissions in a report by the Victoria Transport Policy upfront costs – an additional USD $40 million 5 than diesel bus technologies (1.12 USD/km), were calculated as an estimate of the Institute . Trolleybuses (1.32 USD/km) and night-charging for Eje 8 Sur – they can be a financially viable economic damages linked to an increase in battery electric bus technologies (1.39 USD/ alternative if existing infrastructure can CO e emissions, known as the social cost 5 EEA (2016a), Air pollutant emission inventory guidebook Version 2016 update be used. Overhead charging infrastructure is 2 December 2016. 5 VTPI (2017), Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis II – Noise km) have the highest financial TCO of all the of carbon. On Eje 8 Sur, shifting to electric Costs. technologies assessed. estimated to make up to 40% of the total cost. 1.5 buses would result in a reduction of around A separate assessment by STE determined 6,000 tonnes of CO e per year. 2. Electric buses using opportunity charging that much of the existing infrastructure on Eje 1.2 2 have by far the lowest economic TCO of all 8 Sur, unused since 2009, could be retrofitted assessed bus technologies (1.04 USD/km). for a new trolleybus line. Given STE’s extensive 0.9 By integrating the costs of environmental experience with trolleybuses, this technology impacts of greenhouse gas and local emissions, presents lower operational risks for STE than USD/Km 0.6 the economic TCO of opportunity charging the other electric bus technologies.