Gemilang International Limited is planning to deliver 140 fully electric school buses to schools in California this year. The company, based in Johor, has been designing and manufacturing coaches and buses for over 30 years.
The company has been supplying electric buses to the US since 2016 — mostly using fossil-fueled buses, of course. Chairman and CEO Pang Chong Yong says that the company has also been supplying bus bodies for electric vehicle producers.
He noted that the order of 120 12-meter school buses and 20 7.5-meter school buses was remarkable because it was a breakthrough for the US market, and this was also the largest quantity from a single order of electric buses that Gemilang has ever received. He also pointed out that the electric school bus market in the US is not only large but has an exponential growth aspect. Part of this is due to President Biden signing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal into law last year.
“With the new plan to convert all 500,000 US school buses to zero-emission vehicles, we are confident to capture more market share with our 3 decades of industry experience as well as our main competitive advantage – aluminium lightweight superstructure.”
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