BeerNut Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Metro OKs $22M deal to buy its first 20 electric buses, aims to start carrying passengers next year Quote Board members Thursday approved a $22 million contract for 20 new buses and chargers that will operate along two routes that cross at the Texas Medical Center. They will be the first all-electric buses the Metropolitan Transit Agency has added to its roughly 1,200-bus inventory. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokemonizepic Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 does anyone know who they are buying the buses from/what they will look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.33 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 @pokemonizepicIt will be Nova. From one of the Service Operations Meeting back on 11/11, “Request Board authorization for the President & CEO to execute a contract with Nova Bus (US) Inc. for the purchase of twenty (20) electric buses and chargers”. You can look at Nova's website to see what their electric buses look like. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerNut Posted November 20, 2021 Author Share Posted November 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Justin Welling said: @pokemonizepicIt will be Nova. From one of the Service Operations Meeting back on 11/11, “Request Board authorization for the President & CEO to execute a contract with Nova Bus (US) Inc. for the purchase of twenty (20) electric buses and chargers”. You can look at Nova's website to see what their electric buses look like. https://novabus.com/blog/bus/lfse/ 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 I didn't know Nova made electric buses. Most of the ones you see out there on the road are the Proterra ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay123 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 When are the first electric buses arriving?I thought metro had said by December? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Jay123 said: When are the first electric buses arriving?I thought metro had said by December? I've seen electric Metro buses on the streets for a while now. They don't look any different, other than having a sticker under the driver's window stating that they're electric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 1 hour ago, editor said: I've seen electric Metro buses on the streets for a while now. They don't look any different, other than having a sticker under the driver's window stating that they're electric. I am like 10% confident in my comment here, but it was my understanding that those buses are diesel-electric hybrids? As in, the diesel motor does nothing but generate electricity. The new NOVA buses would be electric only and require charging. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 1 hour ago, wilcal said: I am like 10% confident in my comment here, but it was my understanding that those buses are diesel-electric hybrids? As in, the diesel motor does nothing but generate electricity. The new NOVA buses would be electric only and require charging. That's entirely possible. I've noticed that some of them still have tailpipes coming out of the top of them. I didn't know if they were diesel/electric, or old buses converted to electric. The sticker doesn't give enough information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 The first 20 [electric] buses, to be manufactured at the Nova Bus factory in Plattsburgh, New York, are expected to be on local roads sometime in in late 2022 or early 2023. They’ll run on the 402 Bellaire Express (Quickline) and 28 OST-Wayside routes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay123 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Does anybody know when the 1st electric bus will be shipped and on the streets? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.33 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) Metro's first electric bus has arrived in Houston for agency testing (houstonchronicle.com) First one has arrived, but it'll be some time before they serve riders and METRO branding is put on them. Edited February 24, 2023 by Justin Welling 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.33 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 METRO has the bus on display right now in front of City Hall from 10am-2pm (4/19/23). Expected to hit the streets in Dec or Jan (but they can't confirm anything so that could change). They said they're having to do a lot of testing and it is taking way longer than expected to receive the batch of 20 units. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Justin Welling said: METRO has the bus on display right now in front of City Hall from 10am-2pm (4/19/23). Expected to hit the streets in Dec or Jan (but they can't confirm anything so that could change). They said they're having to do a lot of testing and it is taking way longer than expected to receive the batch of 20 units. December or January? That's insane. The took delivery of the first of these in February, so we're talking 10-11 months between taking delivery and putting it in to service? How can it possibly require that long? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.33 Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 13 minutes ago, Houston19514 said: December or January? That's insane. The took delivery of the first of these in February, so we're talking 10-11 months between taking delivery and putting it in to service? How can it possibly require that long? Your guess is as good as mine. I am just quoting what one of the representatives said. Seemed like a long time to me too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 The batteries are pretty big so it takes a while to charge them 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 I think they're also still building out the charging system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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