The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority revealed its new compressed natural gas buses at a ceremony at the Great Lakes Science Center.
RTA is adding 90 new CNG buses to its big-bus fleet this summer, with 25 more in 2016. They will replace clean diesel buses that have reached the extent of their useful life, RTA said in a statement.
Each CNG bus reduces annual emissions by 100 tons of CO2 equivalent per bus, so RTA’s fleet of CNG buses will emit 30% fewer greenhouse gasses by 2017, Calabrese said. Diesel costs $2.88 per gallon. CNG diesel-gas-equivalent costs $1 per gallon.
Refueling dispensers for RTA’s CNG fleet will be supplied by Parker Hannifin through strategic sustainability initiatives.
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