Greensboro's New Hybrid and Electric Busses

The Greensboro Transportation has as its goal to transition from a fleet of 47 diesel busses to all electric busses. Electric busses are quieter, have no exhaust emission and have lower operating and maintenance costs than diesel busses. Currently, the City has 11 hybrid busses, one of which is featured in the above photo. However, all electric busses are even more efficient than hybrid and the technology continues to improve. Duke Energy has been helping fund the charging stations for the electric busses.*

It will be interesting to monitor the use of busses as people consider foregoing owning a vehicle and relying on alternatives like Uber, Lift, and public transportation. Here is the route information for the above bus line #27 that goes from Battleground to Friendly Center to the downtown depot. We do need to warn you that it makes 41 stops, so allow extra time for getting from Point A to Point B. 

*references and more more information, here.

 

Comments

[Lowell]

What? You mean Chevron isn't financing these buses? :) You are very fortunate. We've got a few old, smoking buses here but they don't go anywhere. You know this is all Eisenhower's fault. After WWII, he kowtowed to the auto and bus companies and built Interstates instead of railroads. Meanwhile companies like GM (which actually helped the Nazis during the war - e.g. the Opel) bought out the electric tram companies so they could sell their buses and of course everyone wanted to go zippety-do down the new highways so cars sold like crazy and the trains went bust and here we are with global warming a terrible problem and the plutocrats still raking in the dough.

Therefore, I am delighted to see these electric buses. I know it still takes some fossil fuel energy to run them but not much and they're a wonderful addition to your city. That's why I appreciate your blog - even though Greensboro is in the south, it's quite a progressive city. Be proud!

[William Kendall]

Ours are not electric, alas.