Nearly $20 million will go to electrify the universitys BruinBus fleet and install underground charging for shuttles and buses along a route that stretches for less than a mile in Westwood. The grant will also fund a new transit hub between the UCLA bus depot and a planned UCLA/Westwood Metro station that would connect to the future D Line subway extension.The project comes as part of a multimillion-dollar grant to UCLA ahead of its hosting of the 2028 Olympic Village. Under the plans, inductive charging coils will be installed underground alongCharles E. Young Drive between the Westwood Plaza intersection and Murphy Hall, while stationary chargerswill also be added at passenger drop-off and pickup locations.Busestraveling along the roadways will pick up charge while driving or parked. The team behind the project hopes it will eliminate the need for drivers to hook vehicles up to charging ports, thus saving time."A wireless inductive option is a game changer," UCLA Fleet and Transit director Clinton Bench told the LA Times. "When a vehicle is driving over [a charger], the vehicle can collect charge while its moving. If youre stationary at a stop and you had a five to seven-minute layover [...] thats probably giving you a pretty good head start on your next route and reducing the amount of charge you need in the evening."The w...