AATA OKs Hybrid Bus Battery Refreshers
Refresher battery kits for up to 20 buses at a total cost of $675,000 have been approved by the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority. The action came at the board’s June 20, 2013 meeting. The board had discussed the item at a previous meeting, on April 18, 2013.
At the April 18 meeting, the board lamented the fact that no U.S. company, and more specifically no Michigan company, had bid on the AATA’s request for proposals to replace the battery kits for its hybrid electric buses. But board sentiment was that a larger purchasing consortium for such kits might eventually be achieved through the newly-created southeast Michigan regional transit authority (RTA) – which includes the transit agencies in Washtenaw, Wayne, Macomb … [Full Story]