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The Société de transport de Montréal showed off a model of an electric bus it will start testing on the streets of Montreal in the fall of 2016.

The STM will run three fully electric buses on bus route No. 36-Monk with charging stations at each of the line’s terminuses: the Angrignon métro station and the Square Victoria métro station.

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The rapid charging stations will charge the batteries of the buses in only six minutes to give them enough juice to complete the 30-kilometre route.

Nova Bus, a division of Volvo Group, will provide the buses for the STM.

The test period will last three years.

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