NEW BUSES FLEET * USA - Hybrid buses arriving in Kentucky

The first of several hybrid electric school buses is going to the school district in LaRue County

Louisville,KY,USA -The Associated Press/The Lexington Heral Leader -22 July 2010: ... LaRue Superintendent Samuel Sanders, will receive the keys of the ThomasBuilt bus at a ceremony in Louisville on Tuesday... Twenty-two school districts in Kentucky will be adding 34 of the electric hybrid buses to their fleets by next month... The U.S. Department of Energy gave a $13 million grant to the Kentucky Department of Education in December that will offset the purchase price of the hybrid system for 213 buses. The Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition says the state will have the largest hybrid electric school bus fleet in the nation...


* USA - CityBus upgrading more buses to hybrids. Pending board approval, greener buses to come

West Lafayette,IND,USA -WLFI, by Tiffanie Dismore -21 Jul 2010: -- Greater Lafayette will be a little more green this fall... The Technical Transportation Committee is recommending the Area Plan Commission approve CityBus' request to upgrade buses to hybrids... Pending approval, CityBus will upgrade the three new diesel buses it bought and turn them into electric hybrids... The $480,000 for the project comes from federal funds. Only three transit systems in the state were awarded the money...