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CDTA to launch electric buses next summer – Times Union
"Albany The first all-electric buses will be hitting the streets of the Capital Region next summer, according to the Capital District Transportation Authority. On Wednesday, CTDA officials approved the purchase of four such 38-seat buses from the Alabama-based New Flyer Corp. under a $3.9 million con..."
Taking the Gillig 4011H home, a 2008 hybrid bus home.
Taking the Gillig 4011H home, a 2008 hybrid bus home. Nothing grows older faster than the future.
I remember when they were new buses, something to try out because they were going to be future of a green, energy efficient economy in an era when gasoline cost $4.20 a gallon locally, and climate change was a problem that everybody thought was a critical crisis to be addressed. Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, and even the New Hampshire Primary was in the distant future. Congress had recently passed the Energy Policy Act of 2007, signed into law by President George W. Bush, that would among other things save billions of kilowatts and millions of gallons of gasoline with more efficient automobiles and consumer lighting technology. Different times for sure.
California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029
If the CARB mandate is met with four years - 2023 - one in four new city busses bought in California will be electric powered. By 2029, all new busses will be electric. It's an aggressive mandate, maybe not fully reachable but it will certainly incentivize public transit authorities to invest in the substations, charging equipment and electric maintenance equipment to make an all electric bus fleet possible.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/climate/california-electric-buses.amp.html
Incredible train ‘disappears’ through block of flats in China’s ‘Mountain City’Â
"Architects and planners in a Chinese city have designed a novel way to make space for an essential train route - by building it through the centre of a block of flats."
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