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Canada’s Hydrogen Bus Trials Canceled Due To High Costs & Emissions

February 7, 2025 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Edmonton, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, grid, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, winnipeg

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:32:16 +0000

For several months I’ve been digging through what’s going on with a Canadian transit ‘think’ tank, CUTRIC, and why it’s pushing hydrogen buses into city plans across the country. It keeps claiming hydrogen buses have been a success and are cheap, but cities keep canceling their plans for them as … [continued]

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Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

February 6, 2025 admin California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:55 +0000

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

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Mumbai Looking to Roll Out 8,000 Electric Buses by 2027

January 24, 2025 admin cities, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, India, mass transit / public transit, Mumbai

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:55:18 +0000

Big cities need to clean up their air, and cutting noise pollution is a great idea as well. Few solutions could be better than electric buses for both of these things. Actually, there may be no better single solution. Electric buses have also now be cost competitive for several years, … [continued]

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More Electric Buses for Australia

January 18, 2025 admin Australia, byd, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:50:26 +0000

Despite stagnant electric car sales, the influx of electric buses remains unabated in Australia. Let’s start with EV market leader BYD. In Australia and around the world, BYD is on a roll. The company has delivered 74,000 electric buses around the globe. Rapid technology advancements, which lead to greater driver … [continued]

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $12 Million to Livingston and Jefferson Parish for Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles as Part of Investing in America Agenda

January 9, 2025 admin clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, justice40 initiative, mass transit / public transit, michael regan, us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:40:45 +0000

DALLAS, TEXAS (January 8, 2025) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Livingston Parish and Jefferson Parish have been selected to receive a combined total of $12,700,000 to assist in the purchase of 45 zero-emission vehicles through its first-ever Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program. “Thanks to President Biden, we are … [continued]

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Thomas Built Buses Unveils Second Generation Electric School Bus

January 7, 2025 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school bus, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, school buses, thomas built buses

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:22:12 +0000

The second generation electric school bus from Thomas Built Buses was announced this week and features a new e-axle from Accelera by Cummins

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BYD Bus & Commercial Vehicle Sales Explode — Charts

January 3, 2025 admin byd, byd electric buses, byd electric trucks, byd sales, clean transport, electric buses, electric heavy-duty trucks, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev sales, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:37:13 +0000

I just wrote about BYD’s 2024 passenger vehicle sales and highlighted trends going back two years via various charts. However, BYD also produces large commercial electric vehicles — electric buses, heavy-duty electric trucks, and more. For two reasons, I decided to split out commercial electric vehicles into this separate article. … [continued]

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Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water

December 25, 2024 admin batteries, buses, California, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:27:42 +0000

Every time I publish anything on electric buses — and I’ve published a lot on them recently — hydrogen bus fans point out that in the west, diesel heaters are often included in buses for winter time use. They say that as if the waste heat from fuel cells was … [continued]

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Solaris to Deliver First EU Battery Passport–Compliant Buses

December 21, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, battery passports, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, ev battery materials, lithium-ion batteries, mass transit / public transit, solaris, solaris urbino, Sweden

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:44:08 +0000

Berlin’s BVG transit system has received the world’s first series-produced electric bus with a battery passport: the Solaris Urbino 18 electric. In a press statement, Solaris said the deliveries put BVG three years ahead of EU regulations, which will require a battery passport in all electric vehicles starting in 2027. … [continued]

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New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

December 20, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric bus, electric buses, electric mass transit, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, new flyer, Oil, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

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