DESPITE the challenges facing the global bus industry, locally Volgren is “bucking the trend” as it opens a new 2000-square metre bus aftersales facility in.
Are noisy, polluting buses coming to the end of the line?
Dandenong manufacturer Volgren unveiled four zero-emission electric buses rolling off its production line on 30 March.
And they rolled off near silently. Without the customary diesel engine noise, the only sounds are the rumbles of tyres and wind sweeping past the bus’s frame.
The Victorian-built buses with 87 per cent local content are touted as a milestone for a clean, green and local bus manufacturing industry.
They were on order from bus operator Transdev Australasia.
Transdev Australasia chief executive Luke Agati said Australia was “on the cusp of an e-mobility revolution in public transport”.
I m vaccinated! Essentia opens vaccine clinic at Duluth mall
Patients began receiving COVID-19 vaccines at the Miller Hill Mall on Friday morning. The vaccine clinic was moved from the downtown hospital to the former Dress Barn storefront. Written By: Laura Butterbrodt | ×
Registered nurse Kris Stonemark gives Lori Eller-Meyer her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Friday, Feb. 5, at an Essentia vaccine clinic in what used to be the Dressbarn store at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth. (Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com)
“Relieved.”
Valerie Jeffries summed up her feelings toward receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine with her husband Friday morning at Essentia’s vaccine clinic at the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth.