The electric buses to be delivered to the UTA and Park City Transit will be 40-foot (12.2m) in length. Gillig’s battery electric bus comes equipped with the Cummins electrified powertrain and features the proven Low Floor platform to offer the most comprehensive as well as advanced zero-emission public transit solution. With more than 200 years of combined transit experience and a countrywide service network, Gillig is now America’s leading zero emissions bus manufacturer.
In addition to delivering the electric buses, Gillig will be responsible for installing sixteen plug-in charging systems as well as four high-power on-route chargers. It is worth-mentioning here that lack of adequate charging infrastructure has thus far remained a big hurdle on the way to mass adoption of EVs. It is for this very reason that governments and electric automobile manufacturers like Tesla are aggressively boosting their efforts to create huge networks of EV chargers at easily accessible locations.