NEW BUSES * USA
* Largest-Ever Deal Puts Fuel Cells in California Buses
Oakland,CAL,USA -Sustainable Business -9 May 2008: -- The largest ever procurement in the United States of fuel cell power systems for public transport buses was announced today at the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) annual bus conference in Austin, Texas... AC Transit of Oakland, CA has agreed to purchase a minimum of eight 120 kW fuel cell systems from UTC Power of South Windsor, CT, with options for an additional 13 units, to power AC Transit's second-generation hybrid-electric, fuel cell buses, scheduled for delivery in 2009 and 2010... AC Transit's first-generation fuel cell buses feature an earlier model UTC Power fuel cell system, in which fuel economy in diesel gallon equivalency has consistently been between 70% and 100% better than a control fleet of AC Transit diesel buses...
* VIA Shows Off New Ones
San Antonio,TX,USA -KSAT -May 9, 2008: -- VIA Metropolitan Transit on Thursday introduced a prototype of a new bus that will one day transport passengers in San Antonio.The Bus Rapid Transit vehicle will be used for routes between downtown and the Medical Center, VIA officials said... Currently, a trip from the Medical Center to the Main Library takes about an hour. The new buses are expected to shorten that commute by about 10 minutes... (Video from YouTube, by satransitman - March 31, 2008: "Old VIA Commercial" - A commercial for the bus transit agency, VIA, in San Antonio, Texas. The puppets in the ad were referred to as "Buppets")
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