The new vehicle features best-in-class legroom and baggage capacity and comes in a 42- or maximum 44-seat configuration.
Also announced that the Government of the District of Columbia is purchasing 26 Xcelsior clean diesel 40-foot buses.
Also announced that in the next two years it will introduce a new lineup of fleet efficiency products to support commercial and government fleets.
Both the 9-liter L9 and 12-liter ISX12 are 2017 greenhouse gas phase 1-compliant.
The authority, which has an annual budget of about $412 million, spent roughly $5.9 million less on fuel in 2016, compared with 2015.
Conducted at an independent, EPA-certified chassis dynamometer testing lab, the Ford Transit test results mirror earlier EPA UDDS chassis dyno performance for Chevrolet and GMC 2500 Express and Savana vans equipped with XL Hybrids’ technology.
The product improvement plan focuses on improved fuel efficiency, lower total cost of ownership and improved uptime.
During testing, Gyrodrive-equipped buses saw a whopping 20% bump in fuel efficiency, more than enough to convince GKR and UK public transport operator Go-Ahead to install the system on 500 buses over the next two years, starting in London and Oxford.
The SensoTop program enables the transmission’s control system to automatically adapt gear-shifting points based on acceleration, vehicle load and topography of the route.
Using both live footage and animation, the Eco-Driving Training video introduces SmartDrive Safety's simple, smooth driving techniques that promote safety and fuel efficiency within public transit.
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