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Delivered in December, the purpose-built 40-foot school buses have a range of up to 150 miles (240 km). According to a GreenPower statement, it was the company's largest delivery of school buses to date. [12] In August 2020, GreenPower issued stock through Nasdaq; shares started at $8, rose to $34, and declined to $18 by April 2021. [4]
Trans Tech is the first school bus manufacturer to produce a fully electric school bus (eTrans, based on the Smith Electric Newton). Van-Con, Inc. Type A Type B 1973 Middlesex, New Jersey: Van-Con, Inc. is New Jersey's only school bus manufacturer. Van-Con, Inc produces 16, 25, 30 passenger and wheelchair accessible school buses.
TARC EcoRide BE35, docked in overhead charger (2015). The HFC35 prototype exhibited at APTA '08 in San Diego [24] was later demonstrated in Washington, D.C. (Nov 2008) [5] and a nationwide tour in regular service was scheduled for 2009, starting in Columbia, South Carolina [15] as a football stadium shuttle for the University of South Carolina (with maintenance, refueling, and charging at ...
A school bus company will terminate its contract with St. Louis Public Schools a year early, bringing an end to a relationship strained after a noose was found near the workstation of a Black ...
A prototype of the company's first product, the EcoRide, was first shown at the 2008 APTA Expo. The battery-electric bus had a composite body and range-extending hydrogen fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU). [8]: 34 Ultimately, the company decided to abandon the APU by the time the bus went on a tour of several cities in California in 2009. [9]
The bus is built on a lightweight frame that lowers overall vehicle weight and improves fuel economy. The bus is designed for long routes with infrequent stops, such as intercity routes, or limited access transit routes (i.e. Park and Ride). DesignLine had a contract with New Jersey Transit to supply the agency with 76 EcoCoach buses by May 2013.
A plug-in hybrid school bus effort began in 2003 in Raleigh, NC, [6] when Advanced Energy began working between districts across the country and manufacturers to understand the needs of both. The effort demonstrated both a technical [ 7 ] and business feasibility [ 8 ] and as a result was able to secure funding in 2005 [ 9 ] from NASEO to ...
St. Louis' school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers. ... the 2024-25 school year, but the company had ...