On the Line: New Flyer of America builds zero-emission buses in Alabama for cleaner transit nationwide

By: Joey Blackwell

New Flyer is North America’s heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior and Xcelsior CHARGE brands.

The company is the only North American manufacturer offering all three types of zero-emission transit buses (battery-electric, fuel cell-electric and trolley-electric), and also offers clean diesel, compressed natural gas and hybrid-electric. The Anniston facility is capable of building all these models and is the only New Flyer facility that produces hydrogen fuel cell electric buses.

“All transit buses are better for greenhouse gases than traditional driving,” said Ben Wood, New Flyer’s vice president of Manufacturing and Facilities. “When you think you can put more than 80 people on a 40-foot vehicle, more than 100 people on a 60-foot vehicle — those are fewer vehicles that are on the road, less traffic, congestion, greenhouse gases, etc. But when you take an electric bus, it even further benefits the greenhouse gas emissions by eliminating tailpipe emissions on that vehicle.”

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