Sexy Tesla sports cars aren’t the only vehicles that deserve the battery treatment – drayage vehicles, school buses, garbage trucks and cargo haulers are also going electric. And the ranks of those medium- and heavy-duty ...
Tags: Heavy-Duty Truck, Truck
REV Group is all geared up to introduce a new bus brand World Trans, due to the growing needs of the bus industry. REV rolled out the World Trans narrow-body T-Series in May of 2016 at the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference in Charlotte, ...
Tags: REV Group, World Trans, bus industry
COMO Connect in the City of Columbia, Missouri is set to take delivery of its maiden breed of first of four battery electric transit buses from BYD Coach & Bus next month. City Manager of Columbia Mike Matthes said: "This is a historic ...
Tags: Electric Buses, BYD'Battery
Zero-emission battery-electric buses firm Proterra has bagged the order for Proterra Catalyst buses from the twin Californian Central Valley cities - Stockton and Porterville - in the US, funded by San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution ...
Zero-emission vehicle maker Proterra has announced an extended range battery system for its electric bus. With the launch of the TerraVolt XR extended-range battery, the buses can be configured to travel up to 180 miles between ...
Tags: Electric Bus, Proterra, Battery
Voith Turbo will provide Gillig, a manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses, with its 60 DIWA.5 automatic transmissions this summer. Gillig will use DIWA transmissions for its clean diesel buses bound for the Port Authority of Allegheny ...
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Voith Turbo will provide Gillig, a manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses, with its 60 DIWA.5 automatic transmissions this summer. Gillig will use DIWA transmissions for its clean diesel buses bound for the Port Authority of Allegheny ...
Tags: Voith Turbo, 60 DIWA.5, Auto Parts
Brazil-based Secretariat of Traffic and Transport (SEMUTTRAN) in association with the Brazilian Transit Operator Via Agile has started the pilot testing of the BYD's pure-electric transit bus. With the trials, SEMUTTRAN aims to evaluate ...
Tags: Electric Buses, pure-electric bus, auto, bus
Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has opened the first ever electric bus factory in Lanscater, California in the US for the manufacture of long-range electric buses. The automaker has also unveiled the first all-electric, ...
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Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has entered into a cooperative agreement with Dalian’s municipal government in China to supply 1200 zero-emission, electric buses to the city. Under the deal, the city government will ...
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Ballard Power Systems (BPS) has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool in support of the manufacture and further deployment of zero emission fuel cell buses. By February 2014, ...
Tags: Ballard, MOU, Van Hool, fuel cell buses
Sterling Group Partners III, an affiliated investment fund of The Sterling Group, has acquired ROM and Specialty Manufacturing (SMI), which are owned and independently operated and financed by Century Park Capital Partners. The ...
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Heavy-duty transit bus manufacturer New Flyer's subsidiary NABI Bus has secured a contract to supply 265 buses to the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Houston in the US. Under the contract, New Flyer will deliver 265 units ...
Tags: Auto, Heavy-duty transit bus
Heavy-duty transit bus manufacturer New Flyer's subsidiary NABI Bus has secured a contract to supply 654 buses to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in the US. The deal includes a firm order for supply of 85 units ...
Tags: Bus Supply, transit bus
Jiangling Motors Co., Ltd (000550) production and sales volume news in June 2013 showed that the monthly production volume of JMC-produced Ford Transit bus was 6,027 units, with the YOY increase of 41.85%. The total production volume of ...
Tags: Transportation, Motor