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Fort Worth buying four New Flyer electric buses for new zero-emission route

Green Car Congress

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority (Trinity Metro) has awarded New Flyer a contract for four heavy-duty, thirty-five-foot Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric buses. New Flyer is further supporting the deployment with management of ABB charger installation and commissioning through New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

This effort began in 2019. The air route connected Hillwood’s Mobility Innovation Zone, in the northern outskirts of Fort Worth, to the Discovery Park on the campus of the University of North Texas, a distance of 60 kilometers (37 miles). All the GCS hardware is installed in a truck provided by Bell Textron.

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