The East Central Iowa Council of Governments (CorridorRides), Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, and Southeast Iowa Bus will operate the buses and charging infrastructure the grant secures, the release said.
Iowa DOT Modal Transportation Bureau Transit Programs Administrator Brent Paulsen said in the USDOT release that, while some Iowa cities have battery-electric buses, the nine grant-funded buses are the first of their kind to be deployed in rural Iowa.
âThe project will lead the way for other rural and urban transit systems to expand their use of alternative fuel vehicles, reduce energy consumption, particulate matter, and greenhouse gas emission by using buses that are powered by the clean electric energy and reducing the consumption of gasoline,â he wrote to The Center Square. âFor all nine buses over the lifetime of the vehicles, the energy consumption reduction is: Gasoline Buses = 2,135,868 kWh;Â Diesel Buses = 1,9290,067 kWh.â
$2 8M federal grant to fund Iowa electric buses
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The Burlington Memorial Auditorium transformed Wednesday from an entertainment venue to a vaccination clinic as Des Moines County seniors turned up at their scheduled times to get their initial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The clinic through which Des Moines County Public Health was able to administer 600 doses of the vaccine with help from Great River Medical Center, Des Moines County Emergency Management, Southeast Iowa Bus, the Community Emergency Response Team and numerous other volunteers was organized in just 24 hours. We set up the clinic (Tuesday) morning, Des Moines County Public Health Administrator Christa Poggemiller said.