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The United States Department of Energy (USDOE) announced the selection of Navistar Corporation for a cost-shared award of up to $10 million to develop, test, and deploy plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) school buses. The project aims to deploy 60 vehicles for a three-year period in school bus fleets across the nation.
The first battery-electric bus entered service in February 2022. [31] Under the Zero-Emission Bus Rollout Plan published in February 2021, 54 articulated buses will be the first production BEBs for Muni and that first purchase is planned for 2027. [32]: 18 The last diesel-electric hybrid buses will leave service by 2037.
Project Connect: Public transit [b] United States: Austin, Texas: 10.3 for the light rail components; unclear for the rest [232] 2021 Unclear Measure approved by Austin voters. Construction of at least one bus rapid transit corridor has begun; light rail construction has not begun. Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel Expansion Project: Bridge ...
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In response to escalating congestion on the region's roads, the region's transit plan included a provision for a BRT system along the Yonge Street and Highway 7 arterial corridors. [108] Most of the system does not contain transit-priority measures, other than an honor system of fare payment. However, construction is underway on dedicated ...
On August 10, 2021, EZ10 was deployed on the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden, Colorado. Nicknamed The Mines Rover, the service consisted of nine buses on three routes connecting locations on campus and in downtown Golden. As of its deployment, it was the largest automated shuttle service in the United States. [15]
Gillig offered the Phantom School Bus in two body lengths during its production: 37 feet (78 passenger capacity) and 40 feet (84 or 87 passenger capacity). As federal regulations of the time did not permit the use of a 102" width body for a school bus, the Phantom School Bus used the narrower 96" body width of the Phantom (discontinued in 2004).
Since producing its first school bus in 1936, virtually all Thomas school bus bodies had been produced in the "conventional" style: a body mated to a cowled truck chassis. [citation needed] While the design was the most popular configuration, the transit-style configuration allowed for a higher passenger capacity (up to 90 passengers). In the ...