BUSMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* USA - Daimler gets order for 500 hybrid buses
Greensboro,NC,USA -The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area -August 7, 2009: -- Daimler Buses North America announced Friday that it had received an initial order for up to 500 diesel-electric hybrid buses... The order for Greensboro-based Daimler, which makes transit buses, motorcoaches and shuttle buses, was received from King County Metro in Seattle, Wash., and includes 93 hybrid units in the first year, to be delivered to Seattle starting in mid-2010... Daimler also announced additional orders:• 80 hybrid buses for OC Transpo, an urban transit service in Ottawa, Canada;
• 75 Orion VII clean-diesel buses for Veolia Transportation for the New Orleans Transit Authority;
• 30 Setra S 417 motorcoaches and 15 Sprinter shuttle buses for Veolia Transportation in San Francisco, Calif.;
• 55 Orion VII clean-diesel buses, and an additional 28 transit buses pending ARRA funding, for Suffolk County, New York.
• 5 Orion VII clean-diesel buses for Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation of North Carolina (PART)
• 5 Orion VII Compressed Natural Gas buses for the University of Oklahoma’s CART (Cleveland Area Rapid Transit)
The company now has more than 2,900 units in revenue service or on order for transit authorities in the United States and Canada... (Photo from dcbusna: Orion bus)
* Brazil - Credit agency to finance purchase of Joburg BRT fleet
Sao Paulo, Brazil -Engineering News (South Africa), by Irma Venter -7 August 2009: -- A partnership between Scania Southern Africa and Marcopolo South Africa is supplying the 143 BRT buses, which are all being imported from Brazil... The City of Johannesburg has – through HSBC Bank – arranged what it terms a “competitive loan” with Brazil’s BNDES Export Credit Agency (ECA) to fund the purchase of the 143-strong Rea Vaya bus fleet required for phase 1A of the bus rapid-transit (BRT) system, set to start opera- tions on August 30... The BRT system’s main routes will see buses run in dedicated lanes, stopping at specially designed stations, located roughly every 750 m along the way... (Picture by: JHB Council - READY TO ROLL The BRT system kicks off on August 30)* USA - Santa Clara VTA to buy 70 hybrid buses
Silicon Valley,CAL,USA -The San Jose Business Journal -7 Aug 2009: -- Transportation Authority with more than $42 million in federal stimulus funds... The buses will be built by Gillig LLC, which employs about 700 workers at its Hayward plant... The vehicles will replace older high-floor buses purchased more than a decade ago... Dennis Howard, president of Gillig LLC, said the contract with VTA will directly generate 35 jobs and support 1,272 suppliers, vendors, and other indirect support jobs... (Photo from afdc.energy.gov: Gillig hybrid bus)* USA - Altair Nanotechnologies to Provide Proterra with Battery Modules for Electric Buses
Reno,NV,USA -Nanowerk News -8 Aug 2009: -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced it has been selected by Proterra, a leading manufacturer of zero emission commercial transportation solutions, to deliver advanced battery modules for electric buses. The value of the contract is $898,400... Under terms of the agreement, Altairnano will supply Proterra with advanced battery modules. Each module features Altairnano's 1P10S module configuration. The modules will be used by Proterra for building several EV and hybrid EV buses for municipalities and transportation authorities. The buses are predominately all-electric, 35-foot Proterra FCBE 35 transit buses... (Photo from thefraserdomain: Phoenix Motor Cars has placed an additional $2.2 million order for 35 kWh NanoSafeTM battery packs with Altair Nanotechnologies)* USA - Maxwell Tech CEO sees more China business
San Francisco,CAL,USA -Reuters, by Poornima Gupta -8 Aug 2009: -- Maxwell Technologies, which makes energy storage and power products, expects rapid growth from China's hybrid bus market and the European auto sector... Both sectors are snapping up Maxwell ultracapacitors, which store energy and are capable of delivering short but powerful bursts of electricity... Ultracapacitor sales increased 58 percent during the second quarter to $10.7 million as the company began shipping its products to three Chinese bus manufacturers... (Photo from jarrodhart.files.wordpress: 800px maxwel mc and bc ultracapacitor cells and modules)* China - Enova Delivers Hybrid Drive Systems to First Auto Works for Hybrid Buses
Shanghai,China -Green Car Congress (USA) -10 August 2009: -- Enova Systems, Inc. has delivered the first 70 pre-transmission hybrid drive systems to First Auto Works for application in a hybrid bus. FAW has ordered an additional 150 hybrid drive systems for delivery in 2009. Enova Systems and FAW have executed an agreement to supply a further 800 pre-transmission hybrid drive systems in 2010... First Auto Works is one of China’s largest vehicle producers, manufacturing in excess of 1,000,000 vehicles annually. The Enova drive system will be integrated and branded under the name of Jiefang. The Jiefang 12-meter hybrid bus can carry 103 passengers and travel at a maximum speed of 85 km/h (53 mph). The bus meets Euro III emission standards. It will consume 30 liters of fuel every 100 kilometers (7.8 mpg US) and discharge 20% less emissions... (Image: Enova-pretrans: Enova’s Pre-Transmission Parallel Hybrid System locates the electric motor between the engine and transmission)Labels: busmakers' news worldwide
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