NC company to make 500 hybrid buses for Seattle

Seattle pi, Associated Press, August 7, 2009

A North Carolina manufacturer is building 500 hybrid transit buses for Seattle - an order that will make the company the largest hybrid bus maker in the world.
Greensboro-based Daimler Buses North America said Friday that King County Metro in Seattle ordered 500 of the diesel-electric buses, with options to buy 200 more. The first batch of 93 buses to be delivered in 2010 will cos tnearly $46 million.
When the new order is filled, there will be nearly 3,000 hybrid Daimler buses in use in North America.
Daimler Buses manufactures transit buses, motorcoaches and shuttle buses.