Originally featured here. MISSOULA, Mont. – The City of Missoula is making significant progress in its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, and The Missoula Urban Transportation District has reached a major milestone in transitioning its fleet of buses to electric. The district aims for its buses to have zero tailpipe emissions by 2035. Mountain Line,…
Original story featured here in Mass Transit A Lowell Regional Transit Authority state-of-the-art hybrid-electric bus is already running routes on city streets, carrying passengers to and from their destinations in a vehicle that LRTA staffer David Westcott says “rides like a Cadillac.” “I’ve been driving buses for 25 years,” he said, before a ceremony celebrating…
The Town of Vail recently issued the following press release on six new battery electric buses: The Town of Vail is continuing progress toward its goal of a 100% clean energy bus fleet by 2032 with the addition of six new battery electric buses. Two more buses are expected to arrive this fall, which…
Rich Ross knows some people will need convincing the city’s newly arriving electric buses are worthwhile since they’re parked at the opposite end of a lot from a previous model that hasn’t moved in nearly two years. But the Capital Transit superintendent said Monday the seven new buses are from a different manufacturer…
Read the original here The Gardena Public Transportation System (GTrans) in Gardena, Calif., celebrated “International Clean Air Day”, by deploying an additional fleet of zero-emission buses and launching a new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) station, bringing the agency’s fleet to a total of 13 zero-emissions buses. The new addition to the agency’s fleet…
This post was originally featured here. PROVINCETOWN — The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority received a $14.6-million federal grant in July that will pay for 13 new hybrid-electric buses at around $1 million each, along with a program to teach workers to maintain the vehicles. Tom Cahir, administrator of the CCRTA, said the money…
This post was originally featured on TriMet News. TriMet’s new battery-electric buses are officially on the road! Twenty-four next-generation “e-buses” are entering service with TriMet this year. The first of those buses began welcoming riders aboard Line 9-Powell in July, offering a smooth, quiet and comfortable ride between Downtown Portland and the Gresham Central Transit…
Click here to read the original story. FAIRFIELD — The city’s first of three 35-foot Gillig Battery-Electric, Zero-Emission buses will make its debut at 11 a.m. Aug. 29 at the Fairfield Transportation Center, 2000 Cadenasso Drive. It marks FAST’s first zero-emission transit vehicle as part of an effort to transition to 100% zero-emission fleet by…
Originally featured here. SONOMA COUNTY, CA—The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of seven battery-electric transit buses Tuesday. The new buses will replace natural gas-powered buses in Sonoma County Transit’s current fleet that have exceeded the 12-year minimum service life required by the Federal Transit Administration. Once they are delivered in November 2026,…
GILLIG Feb 26 GILLIG Launches New Engineering Center in Colorado, Subsidiary Acquires Select Assets From Lightning eMotors and Lightning Systems Livermore, California, February 26, 2024: GILLIG, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses in the U.S., announced today that GERCO LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, has acquired select assets from Lightning…