“The AVTA Board continues to hold to our vision of an all-electric transit agency, including support vehicles,” AVTA Board Chairman Marvin Crist said in a news release. “We are very pleased that AVTA was able to fulfill the RFP from a local business here in the Antelope Valley.”
In 2016, the AVTA Board of Directors adopted a goal to procure and operate a 100% battery-electric fleet. Since then, AVTA achieved the first all-electric local bus fleet in North America in 2020, and the first all-electric commuter fleet in 2022. The next step of this process is to add battery-electric support vehicles for fixed-route transit operations.
In the June Board meeting, the AVTA Board of Directors authorized Executive Director/CEO Martin Tompkins to purchase the support vehicles and put them into service. This month, the AVTA Chevy Bolts made their first appearance, with custom-designed wraps to complement AVTA’s all-electric zero-emission local bus fleet.
AVTA provides local, commuter and dial-a-ride service to a population of more than 450,000 residents in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale as well as the unincorporated portions of northern Los Angeles County.
ACE says
THIS IS SUCH GREAT NEWS..!
WHY WE’LL HAVE THIS GLOBAL WARMING BUSINESS KNOCKED RIGHT OUT OF THE RING IN NO TIME…
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MARV CRIST IS SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON…
ISN’T HE..?
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