Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, FTA has awarded nearly $5 billion in the past three years to replace and modernize transit buses on America’s roadways, building new technology with American workers. U.S. factories will produce more than 4,600 of these new buses.
As part of an initiative to modernize and reduce public transit fleet emissions, the City of Racine operates nine all-electric buses with the Modine EVantage Thermal Management System, with up to four additional EVs on order.
The informative session will be moderated by Scott Belcher, executive director for ACES Mobility Coalition and feature Coalition for Reimagined Mobility’s Allante Whitmore, the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority’s Doug Jamison, and Beep’s Mark Klein.
The public transportation industry and its large supplier base are about to receive their largest financial boost in history. The boost will then become even larger and more sustained if other pending legislative actions remain on track.
Following a tour of the Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley assembly plant in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for changes to enforcement of the Buy American Act and emphasized American-made manufacturing to secure critical supply chains.
The vehicles are replacing older models that significantly surpassed their 12-year useful life.
Here’s a look at some of the highlights of the relationship-building event bringing select suppliers and operators together, which took place in February 2020.
MTS adding 24 D4500s, while RTS adds Xcelsior battery-electric buses.
Is first battery-electric transit bus of its size to complete the full 15,000-mile durability test in106 days.
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