Chapel Hill Transit will soon put seven of its 10 remaining electric buses back on the road, three months after the 11th bus caught fire and was destroyed. The Chapel Hill Fire Department ...

Chapel Hill reintroduces seven electric buses following safety inspections after one caught fire in December; the other three remain grounded due to the same battery type.

an inherent fire danger caused by the batteries, substantially higher initial cost for the busses, lack of long term data on electric bus reliability in cold climates, the possibility of having to ...