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Long Beach Terminates Electric Bus Contract

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Electric bus manufacturer BYD Motors and the Long Beach Transportation (LBT) terminated a contract for 10 electric buses on a technicality. BYD said the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) withdrew funding when the company failed to direct a percentage of the contract to minority-owned businesses, as part of a federal mandate. LBT ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: BYD, GE, Virgin, SkyNRG, Alcoa

May 6, 2013June 24, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BYD will begin making electric buses (pictured) and large-scale batteries at two manufacturing facilities in Lancaster, Calif., the company says. These mark the first manufacturing facilities in the US for BYD Motors, a Los Angeles-based subsidiary of the Chinese firm BYD (short for Build Your Dreams) Company. Last month, the ... Read more »

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