Delivery of NJ Transit’s next 7 electric buses delayed – again

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The agency ordered first the buses last year.

will have to roll through the streets of Camden alone after officials said seven additional such buses that would have joined it for real world testing won’t be delivered until 2023.to putting the eight bus fleet on the street for testing and data gathering. The delay was noted on the agenda of the agency’s Energy and Sustainability Committee, but wasn’t spoken about during a meeting Wednesday.

“The timeline referenced in the committee meeting is for the last of the seven buses, which we anticipate we will receive by the end of January,” said Jim Smith, an NJ Transit spokesperson. “We will be receiving the other buses at intervals between now and that final delivery.”the first New Flyer battery electric bus that debuted during an Oct.4 ceremony

. The bus then entered regular service as part of a pilot program. Information gathered from operating the eight buses would help NJ Transit officials how to deploy battery-electric buses throughout its system. “This was due to minor supply chain issues, but in the overall context of the program it will not impact the operational deployment,” Smith said. “We continue to have the first bus in service and we are collecting and evaluating that data. As the buses arrive, they will be added to the deployment.”to buy the eight battery-powered electric buses and parts. The contact was bid in June 2021, which had been pushed back from February.

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