The Greensboro Transit Agency will soon be expanding its alternative fuel fleet. The NC Department of Environmental Quality has awarded a total of $1,145,483 in Volkswagen settlement and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funding. These funds are targeted to replace an aging diesel transit bus that has reached the end of its useful life with a clean zero emissions electric bus and charging apparatus.

Combined with the $3 million Federal Transit Administration award announced in March for the purchase of three electric buses, these investments in clean fuel vehicles will increase the total number of electric buses in the fleet to 21. Along with a number of existing diesel-electric hybrid buses, more than 50 percent of the GTA fixed-route bus fleet now consists of sustainable vehicles.