Latest Hybrid electric bus Stories
VANCOUVER, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) announced today that it anticipates powering approximately 40 of the 50 zero emission fuel cell buses used in public transit revenue service on European roads in 2014. By 2014 Ballard will be powering 27 fuel cell buses manufactured by partner Van Hool NV, Europe's fourth largest bus OEM. The Van Hool buses will be operating in such cities as: Oslo, Norway (5 buses); Cologne, Germany (2); San...
AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Valence Technology, Inc., a leading U.S.-based global manufacturer of advanced energy storage solutions for commercial applications, today announced it has received a purchase order valued at $12 million from Wrightbus, for batteries to be delivered through 2015. Leveraging a relationship the two companies have enjoyed since 2007, Valence has been selected as the battery supplier of choice for Wrightbus' range of hybrid vehicles,...
SINGAPORE, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE: CYD) ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), announced today that its main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited ("GYMCL"), has sold 298 units of its YC6J gas and electric hybrid engines to the Baoding Bus Company in Hebei Province. The Baoding Bus Company is the first company in Baoding City to operate buses using GYMCL's gas and electric hybrid engines ("Engine"). One hundred...
220 Clean Diesel Bus Order Is Greyhound's Largest in 20 Years WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Greyhound's announcement that it has placed orders for 220 new clean diesel, low emission buses highlights the major advancements in diesel fuel efficiency and environmental gains, according to Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum. "Congratulations are in order for Greyhound and the two manufacturers - Motor Coach Industries and Prevost...
DUBLIN, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bxf5hv/hybrid_and ] has announced the addition of the "Hybrid and Electric Buses and Taxis 2012-2022: Forecasts, Opportunities, Players" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bxf5hv/hybrid_and ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) This is the world's first report forecasting the global market for electric...
VANCOUVER, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLD) has announced a supply agreement with the Center for Transportation and the Environment for a 150 kilowatt FCvelocity(TM)-HD6 fuel cell module to be integrated into a bus that will be deployed with CTTransit in Hartford, Connecticut. The All-American fuel cell hybrid bus is expected to be delivered in 2015. The fuel cell hybrid bus configuration to be deployed with CTTransit was jointly...
VANCOUVER, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLD) announced today that it has been awarded approximately C$2.0 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) for a one-year extension to a project that is furthering commercialization of the Company's fuel cell power module for use in the transit bus market. In January 2010, SDTC awarded Ballard up to C$4.8 million for a development project under which Ballard has now...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) announced today that SEPTA will receive $3 million under the federal Clean Fuels Program to buy new diesel-electric hybrid buses as replacements for use across the five-county system. "SEPTA already has one of the nation's largest fleets of clean-energy buses - and it's already the nation's best public transit agency. With more hybrid buses coming into the fleet SEPTA will be getting even better,"...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AC Transit, and a coalition of regional transit partners serving 7 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area, this week inaugurated the newest hydrogen production and dispensing station to fuel the latest generation of zero-emission fuel cell buses operating throughout the region. Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Chair of the California Air Resources Board Mary Nichols were joined by over 300 guests and a dozen other federal, state,...
-- Second sale to Van Hool, strengthening relationship with one of Europe's largest original equipment manufacturers of buses -- 21 FCvelocityTM-HD6 modules to power zero-emission buses VANCOUVER, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (TSX: BLD) (NASDAQ: BLDP) announced that it has signed an equipment supply agreement with Van Hool NV, Europe's fourth largest bus manufacturer, for 21 of the company's latest-generation...
