Transfort to publicly reveal its first electric buses at Earth Day event
The city of Fort Collins, Colo., transit agency, Transfort, is adding two battery electric buses to its fleet as part of the city’s transportation electrification plan and the EV readiness roadmap.
The public is invited to join Transfort and city officials on April 22 (Earth Day) to publicly reveal the new buses and celebrate this important milestone. Each bus is covered in a unique Fort Collins-themed wrap to commemorate their addition to Transfort’s fleet.
A formal reveal event will be held on Earth Day from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the parking lot behind city hall. Following that celebration, a bus will be available for a public walk through/open house-style event.
Transfort received the two battery electric buses in January 2022 using funding from VW Settlement Funds and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program. Additionally, Transfort installed two depot chargers at its maintenance facility in December 2021 with FTA 5339 funding.
The buses are currently in testing and bus operators are training on routes. They are expected to be in service later this spring.
Plans to purchase an additional battery electric bus and charging station are already underway and Transfort expects delivery and installation to be complete by late 2023. In all, Transfort has funding for a total of 11 battery-electric buses by 2025, making 21 percent of the fleet battery electric. Transfort plans to convert its entire 53-bus fleet to electric by 2040.
The transition to emissions-free public transit is a strategy for municipal sustainability and is in Climate Future, the city’s climate action plan.
