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US school bus manufacturer Blue Birds says it has registered a +250% in sales of e-buses in 2020, and therefore announces a strategy to increase production capacity up to 1,000 units annually. Today, nearly 50 percent of Blue Bird’s bus sales are non-diesel powered. The reason of such a trend ...

Toronto’s transit operator TTC announces that it is operating the largest fleet of electric buses in North America. The milestone comes as the TTC’s third new electric bus model is now road ready and starting to go into service. Today 35 e-buses are in operation, out of 60 globally ordered. Th...

130 million dollars grants for the purchase or lease of zero and low emission transit buses for the USA, with related charging facilities. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a massive funding through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant p...

A new actor shows up on the North American stage of electric bus manufacturers. Gillig, indeed, in May 2019 took the opportunity of the APTA (American Public Transportation Association) conference to announce the launch of its first 12-meter electric bus, after a premiere held at the end of April. D...

Beverly Public Schools in Massachusetts opt for the newly released Thomas Built electric school bus Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley, equipped with Proterra technology with regards to electric drivetrain and batteries. Also a Proterra 60kW charging system has been selected. The project represents the first all...

20 e-buses already in the fleet and 13 further units coming. But the plans are much wider. University of Georgia (UGA) is targeting the complete phase-out of diesel buses from the fleet. Accordingly, UGA will be the university hosting the largest electric bus fleet in the US. 12 charging stations fo...

130 BYD e-buses weren’t enough: Los Angeles has decided for a further order, this time with Proterra, bringing the figure up to 155 electric buses. That now marks the largest investment on this technology in North America. The major investment of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT...

North America’s first cluster dedicated to researching battery electric and fuel cell electric buses has been launched by CUTRIC (The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium) together with seven partners. CUTRIC and its members are contributing a total of $4.2 million in fund...

An electric powertrain developed in order to repower Van Hool coaches converting them to zero emission operations. The product will be offered to the North American market by ABC Companies (Van Hool distributor in North America) together with Lightning Systems. The latter is a Colorado-based develop...

2020 is expected to be a crucial year for the switch of commuter shuttles in the Silicon Valley to battery-electric technology. In this framework, the biotechnology corporation Genentech represents today a bright rare case: the company is going to convert half of its commuter shuttles fleet to zero ...