Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2021
Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) is growing its battery-electric fleet with the purchase of 10 K11M 60-foot articulated buses and six K7M 30-foot buses. AVTA, which serves northern Los Angeles County and portions of southern Kern County, was the first transit agency in North America to make the decision to go 100% battery-electric.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2021
BYD announced that its all-new K8M, an innovative 35-foot zero-emission public transit bus, set a high scoring record in the Federal Transit Administration Model Bus Testing Program in Altoona, Pa. —Patrick Duan, BYD North America Senior Vice President. The K8M transit bus is 35 feet in length and can seat up to 33 passengers.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
BYD announced that its participation in a California-wide purchasing contract will also allow US transit agencies to leverage California’s purchase power to buy US-built zero-emission BYD battery-electric motor coaches, made by union employees in Lancaster, California. BYD 45' electric motor coach.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2019
The Anaheim Transportation Network has awarded an order for 40 battery-electric buses to BYD. The ATN fleet order will increase the number of BYD electric buses the agency can deploy to serve one of the nation’s busiest tourism and employment regions. One-half of the order will be the popular 40-foot BYD K9M.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Current ZET deployments are concentrated in states that have supportive policies and regulations (California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois) or have received federal funds for ZET purchases (Texas, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and Massachusetts). BYD’s experience in the bus market assisted its expansion into MHD BET segments.
Charged EVs
APRIL 19, 2023
I was involved in the funding of Smith Electric Vehicles , and I helped to build the entire technology stack on the vehicle—battery system, wire harnesses, onboard charger, battery management system, you name it. What I can tell you is that the next sites are going to be Newark, New Jersey, and Savannah, Georgia.
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