Mayors of Cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle have released the nation's first multi-city request to the automotive industry to increase the production of electric vehicles and help in tackling fuel and ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Automakers
COMO Connect is expanding its bus fleet by adding zero-emission, all-electric buses starting this June to better serve customers and reduce operational costs. The three (3), 30-ft, low-floor, all-electric transit buses will be supplied by ...
Tags: Pure-Electric Bus, transit buses
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
The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
Tags: Transit Buses, cv
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling infrastructure maker TruStar Energy along with Energy Systems Group (ESG) has been given a contract to build transit fast-fill CNG fuel station in Indiana for CityBus. CityBus provides transit service ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Transportation
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
Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has secured its largest ever order for the supply of electric vehicles to the Hangzhou region. Under the order, which is claimed to be one of the world's largest all-electric fleets contract, BYD ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle-Fleet, automaker
Green vehicle technology manufacturer Proterra has launched its second generation all-electric bus, the Proterra Solution, at the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference in the US. Proterra Solution is ...
Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has delivered three new battery electric transit buses to the Taiwan-based MiaoLi Motor Transportation for local use. The delivery is part of the several battery electric transit buses ordered to ...
Tags: taiwan, car, auto parts
DENSO Products and Services Americas Inc.has introduced a GK3-7 Iridium Saver Plug for natural gas engines featuring a three-prong design to physically block rapid gas flow,which allows the proper spark to be generated. The company says ...
Tags: Denso, Gas Engines, Spark Plug
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the US Department of Transportation has announced a grant of $24.9m for a new generation of advanced, non-polluting transit buses through its new Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo). ...
Tags: zero emission transit buses, FTA
Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, says a University of Michigan researcher. Michael Sivak, a research professor at the U-M ...
Tags: fuel economy, energy efficiency, transportation, fueling
Governors from eight states in the US have signed a cooperative agreement to put 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on road in their states by 2025. The states under this deal include California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New ...
Amyris, Inc., a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, announced that its farnesene plant in Brazil has achieved the production run rate of 1 million liters over a 45-day period. Amyris's Chief Executive Officer John Melo will speak ...