The typical new car today costs almost $49,000 - near a record high. Used cars are also flirting with all-time highs. That's because car prices skyrocketed during the pandemic and have hardly fallen since, making car ownership one of the biggest financial burdens Americans face.
Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the research initiative is being carried out in collaboration with two additional RWTH institutes and the municipality of Simmerath.
ENC's Altoona-tested AXESS platform is designed to be among the safest heavy-duty transit buses available in America, built with a 304-grade stainless steel body structure.
The nearly 50-year-old Bay Area tradition of Casual Carpool, or getting rides to work with complete strangers who want carpool-lane privileges, was discontinued once the pandemic hit.
This order was added to New Flyer's first-quarter 2025 backlog and marks one of the larger clean-diesel bus procurements in the Company's history.