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BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Up 49%

November 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments byd, byd electric buses, byd sales, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, ev sales, mass transit / public transit, Shipping

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:55:53 +0000

After some recent contributions from Larry Evans and big news coming from BYD itself, I started digging into BYD’s monthly production and sales reports. The big business is the passenger vehicle business. However, BYD also reports production and sales of its buses (electric) and production and sales of its other … [continued]

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Electric Buses In Zion National Park: 6-Month Report Card

November 11, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, national parks, new flyer, new flyer xcelsior, zion national park

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:51:28 +0000

Background: Spectacular Zion Canyon — Cars Prohibited 7 Months a Year: I would argue that the 6-mile route up Zion Canyon in Zion National Park is the most beautiful place in the world. Twenty-five years ago, Zion National Park went “green.” The National Park Service decided that automobile traffic in … [continued]

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Con Ed And First Student Bring Solar Microgrid To New York

November 7, 2024 admin 0 Comments Brooklyn, clean transport, con ed, con edison, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, ev charging, grid, microgrids, New York, NEW YORK CITY, NYC, Smart Grid, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:36:27 +0000

Con Edison and First Student are constructing a microgrid in Brooklyn to manage the charging requirements of electric school buses.

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New Flyer Bus OEM Has Its Strategy Wrong & Will Lose Market Share

October 30, 2024 admin byd, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev sales, fuel cell, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, new flyer

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:45:58 +0000

New Flyer is the leading provider of transit buses in North America. It’s also the leading provider of hydrogen buses in North America, which is a problem for it, although it feels like an opportunity. That’s where the bad strategy comes in. As always when I talk about strategy — … [continued]

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Electric Buses Just Got Way, Way More Interesting

October 26, 2024 admin Brooklyn, clean power, electric bus charging, electric buses, electric school buses, fleet electrification, new york (nyc), school buses, Solar energy, usa, world resources institute, wri

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:55:04 +0000

Electric buses are being put to use in Brooklyn as roving energy storage systems topped with solar panels, as part of a goal to electrify school bus fleets across the nation.

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29 New Electric School Buses Are Coming To Biloxi, Mississippi

October 23, 2024 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, Mississippi, Schools

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:41:08 +0000

Biloxi Public Schools (BPS) will be acquiring 29 new all-electric school buses and installing charging infrastructure for them. Electric school buses generate no direct air pollution, unlike their diesel and gas counterparts that emit exhaust which harms human health. Diesel exhaust, in particular, is a problem. “In its comprehensive assessment … [continued]

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Electric Buses Rule Down Under

October 22, 2024 admin adelaide, Australia, australian capital territory, Brisbane, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, NEW ZEALAND, perth, south australia

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:35:46 +0000

The 2024 National Bus and Coach Show was held in Brisbane last month featuring a vast array of buses in all sizes and drivetrains. Of course, CleanTechnica’s readers are mainly interested in battery electric vehicles, and so we will be focussing on those. Presently, only about 0.2% of buses on … [continued]

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Brisbane Metro — The End of Diesel Buses?

October 15, 2024 admin Australia, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:39:17 +0000

Like many modern cities, Brisbane was serviced by an efficient electric tram network until the ’70s, when it was ripped up and diesel buses took the place of trams. We’ve all seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and so we know who was really behind that move. In a retro revolution, … [continued]

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The First Electric School Bus Fleet To Serve A Sovereign Tribal Community In The US

October 11, 2024 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, press releases, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:03:55 +0000

The Red Lake School District in Minnesota has unveiled a new electric school bus fleet, making it the first public school district with an indigenous population to utilize funding from the EPA Clean School Bus Program. As the majority of US school districts wait a bit longer to make the … [continued]

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