{"id":97973,"date":"2019-10-30T00:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-us-transit-industry-first-trimets-new-electric-buses-powered-entirely-by-wind"},"modified":"2019-10-30T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:36:19","slug":"a-us-transit-industry-first-trimets-new-electric-buses-powered-entirely-by-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-us-transit-industry-first-trimets-new-electric-buses-powered-entirely-by-wind","title":{"rendered":"A US transit industry first: TriMet\u2019s new electric buses powered entirely by wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfo-5IScuj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In what is believed to be a transit industry first in the United States, <i>TriMet<\/i>\u2019s all-electric buses will be powered by 100 percent wind energy. <i>TriMet<\/i> and project partner Portland General Electric made the historic announcement on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. As Oregon\u2019s largest transit provider, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trimet.org\/2018\/09\/trimets-road-map-to-a-clean-energy-bus-fleet\/\">TriMet has committed to a non-diesel bus fleet by 2040<\/a>. The initial journey toward a non-diesel fleet now begins with battery-electric buses that will be powered by PGE\u2019s Clean Wind\u2120 renewable energy program.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p> \u201cToday, we are riding the winds of change. <i>TriMet<\/i>\u2019s commitment to a zero-emissions bus fleet by 2040 and support of wind power put the agency and our region at the forefront of a cleaner future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cWe are proud to support <i>TriMet<\/i>\u2019s work to electrify transportation across our region. Powered by wind, this all-electric bus line is a sustainable transportation option for the community and another step closer to a clean energy future for Oregon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is believed to be a transit industry first in the United States, TriMet\u2019s all-electric buses will be powered by 100 percent wind energy. TriMet and project partner Portland General Electric made the historic announcement on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. As Oregon\u2019s largest transit provider, TriMet has committed to a non-diesel bus fleet by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}