How Fuel Efficient Are Buses?
An average MCTS bus gets 4.5 miles per gallon of diesel fuel. Yet, with just six passengers, a bus can be significantly more fuel efficient than a car. If a car averaged 25 miles per gallon and traveled five miles with a single occupant, it would still average 25 passenger miles per gallon. If a bus traveled the same five miles, it would need 1.06 gallons of fuel. But once a bus had six passengers traveling the same distance, its fuel economy changes to 28.3 passenger miles per gallon. All MCTS buses run on diesel fuel and require over 4 million gallons of fuel annually.
