Despite an over-all depressed transit bus market due to Covid-19, the U.S. zero emission transit bus market grew by 24 percent in 2020 according to CALSTART. The report noted that 53 new transit properties ordered zero emission buses (ZEB’s) in 2020, bringing the total to 229.
Since the creation of the Clean Air Act (CAA), the federal government has been working with public and private organizations to reduce the amount of pollution released into the atmosphere. Transit buses have historically and predominantly operated on diesel fuel. Although buses produce less smog per capita than cars, they still release toxic fumes like nitrous oxide directly into urban communities.
Over the holidays, four Northeast jurisdictions signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding to join the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) cap-and-invest program beginning in 2022. The TCI-P will set a declining cap on carbon emissions generated by the transportation sectors in participating jurisdictions, and require petroleum suppliers to purchase allowances for the pollution generated by sales of their fuels in these markets.
The Volvo Group was honored with CALSTART’s 2020 Blue Sky Award at the organization’s annual meeting, a virtual gathering of the clean transportation industry’s top leaders and decision-makers.
By Dr. Cristiano Façanha, Peter Jenkins, and Owen MacDonnell 2020 is coming to a close (thank goodness!). As we work together to
Global transportation systems have begun a shift to newer, cleaner technologies that will meet greenhouse gas emission reduction and air quality improvement goals that governments have developed or fleets have adopted.
The Volvo Group was honored with CALSTART’s 2020 Blue Sky Award at the organization’s annual meeting, a virtual gathering of the clean transportation industry’s top leaders and decision-makers.
Today Dr. Cristiano Façanha, Global Director of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program and campaign (Drive to Zero™) delivered the closing remarks at the World Economic Forum’s “Fast-Forwarding the Race to Zero-Emission Trucking” event.
A scandal led to a $2.9 billion trust fund for states to put cleaner vehicles on their roads. A lot of the money has gone to more diesel vehicles.
When managed effectively, battery electric buses can offer benefits to both the fleets that operate them and the power grid that supports them. One of the more recently-explored methods of reaping some of those benefits is vehicle-grid integration.