AVTA Board Chairman Marvin Crist highlighted some of the benefits of the electrification of AVTA’s fleet.
“Thus far, approximately 512,821 gallons of diesel fuel have been saved with the new battery-electric fleet,” Crist said. “This equates to a net savings of $801,190 in fuel costs after paying for electricity.”
“Even more impressive, those two million all-electric miles represent a carbon footprint reduction of more than 12 million pounds of CO2 and 29,063 pounds of particulate matter,” Crist continued.
Since Feb. 2016, when the AVTA Board of Directors voted to award a contract to BYD to manufacture electric buses over a five-year period at BYD’s facility in Lancaster, AVTA has been on the path to pioneering battery-electric bus transportation. The project, which is nearing completion, has created a smarter, greener, and more interconnected transit system serving the Antelope Valley and areas extending south into the Los Angeles basin and north to Edwards Air Force Base and the Mojave Air and Space Port.
By combining groundbreaking electric bus technology with wireless inductive charging technology, AVTA’s innovative bus project is the first of its kind in the nation.
“AVTA actively operated 88 buses during December 2019, over half of which are zero-emission buses,” stated AVTA Executive Director and CEO Macy Neshati. “Those 49 BYD electric buses, manufactured right here in the Antelope Valley, just completed two million miles of travel. Our goal from the start was to be the first transit agency to implement electric bus technology on a broad scale, and we have met that goal.”
[Information via news release from the Antelope Valley Transit Authority.]
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Ralph Cramden says
Does the mileage include all the miles the BYD busses were being towed?
Ed Norton says
LOL
Ron says
Now u got some guys from NASA saying in 2024 were headed for a Mini Ice Age that will last 400 years. These guys are all over the place. It’s going to freeze no I mean get hot no I mean hot and cold no I mean freeze . THEY HAVE NO CLUE!!! Just make stuff up as they go.
Ron says
50 years ago they were saying we were all going to die from the Ice Age. We would all have to have gas mask by 1985. Climate Change is B.S. I’m still waiting for the Acid Rain?
William says
You still are gonna die in denial all the way.
Your ignorance of climate change is noted.
Ron says
They said the exact opposite all thru the 70s from 1970 -1979. They said that the cause was the same. Man caused The Coming ICE Age by greenhouse gas , carbon admissions , and if we didn’t spend millions we would all die by the late 80s. All thru the 70s they said things like 200 million people were going to die from famine and starvation. That all the oil was going to dry up. When the 80s came around the same scientist said we were all going to die from the Ice Age quickly jumped on the Global Warming idea and that acid Rain was going to wipe out the Rainforest. Then in the 80s that said snow was no longer going to exist there was going to be a great flood from the Ice caps melting and a hole in the ozone layer. All the predictions from the last 50 years not one of them came true.
Ron says
Now u got some guys from NASA saying in 2024 were headed for a Mini Ice Age that will last 400 years. These guys are all over the place. It’s going to freeze no I mean get hot no I mean hot and cold no I mean freeze . THEY HAVE NO CLUE!!! Just make stuff up as they go.
Alexis says
Thomas B. Ackerman, a geophysicist, shared how a life spent trying to understand the climate has contributed to his understanding of God. God is in control of the climate, and I resonate with Job, “All of this is too wonderful for me.” That the knowledge of God is beyond his knowledge.
RENAE METOYER says
What happened to the commuter buses, they are falling apart. They were supposed to be new electric buses two years ago!
Bus Rider says
I asked that of AVTA and they said they have been delivered and were at their yard being outfitted with fareboxes and radios and other custom stuff
William says
Who said that? The innovation coordinator?