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Trolleybus Emoji 🚎

Overhead wires power the trolleybus emoji instead of a battery or a diesel tank, a bus body wired up tram-style. That setup is still running in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver among a shrinking handful of cities, and the emoji is used narrowly for that specific hybrid system rather than for buses in general.

What 🚎 means

A generic bus with a hue of blue painted across the lower half, bluish windows and windshield, equipped with headlights, taillights, and sidelights too. The bus has two pairs of wheels and a cabled extension on the roof.

The 🚎 Trolleybus emoji represents the electrically powered mode of public transport that's used in many cities throughout the world. Although trolleybuses are eco-friendly to a great extent, they aren't easily re-routable like diesel/petrol buses.

How and when to use it

If you witnessed or experienced a trolleybus for the first time, you ought to make a special memory out of it! Use 🚎 either while sharing a social media post/story or even while directly messaging (DM-ing) someone the pictures of your first trolleybus encounter.
While sharing news posts, informative and other educational posts on trolleybuses, 🚎 can be an addition in the post caption. It works even while sharing links to this information, like a news article, a video, etc.
Since trolleybuses are eco-friendly, you could use 🚎 in any general context that talks about eco-friendly travel, sustainable traveling, etc.
To let someone know that you're on a trolleybus or that you use a trolleybus as a regular option to reach work or school, use 🚎. You could also use this emoji while suggesting someone to take this particular mode of public commute.

Other Names

🚎 Trolley Coach
🚎 Trolley Bus
🚎 Trackless Trolley
🚎 Trackless Tram
🚎 Trolley
🚎 Trolley Transport

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F68E
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :trolleybus:
Keywords: bus, tram, trolley, trolleybus

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.