Marla Miller, Operations Manager for Davenport's Transit Division, says the 4.8 million dollars will pay for four electric buses, plus all the changes necessary to operate them.
"We'll have to make some amendments, not only to our bus barn that houses our buses, but to our fleet bus bay to be able to maintain the buses. There'll be education so we have to designate the mechanics that are going to learn all about these electric buses, all about the electric car charging stations, troubleshooting, that type of thing."
The new, electric buses, scheduled to arrive early in 2024, will replace some 20-year old diesel buses. And that will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by hundreds of thousands of pounds per year.
In addition to the grant from the Federal Transit Administration, CitiBus was able to raise 160,000 dollars from MidAmerican Energy and 25,000 from the Regional Develoment Authority.
