NJ Transit Receives Electric Bus Demo!

Camden, NJ – New Jersey Transit of New Jersey has received a New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE XE35 electric bus to demo from New Flyer Industries. Currently, this bus is sitting at Newton Avenue garage. No word on if the demonstration includes operating in revenue service or not but it’s not likely.

New Jersey Transit is set to receive 8 electric buses from New Flyer Industries in late 2022, which are to operate out of Newton Avenue Garage. These will be the first fleet of electric buses to operate for NJ Transit, and the biggest step towards zero emissions NJ Transit has taken.

Since 1992, NJ Transit has been investing in greener technologies and fuels such as Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). Currently, NJ Transit operates 147 CNG and 36 HEV buses. With the electric buses due to come in, that total will be 191 green vehicles in the fleet.

This is actually the first time in NJ Transit history, that Newton Avenue Garage received greener vehicles as well. At some point, Hamilton, Howell, Ironbound, and Harbor garages were recipients of greener vehicles. Hamilton operated NovaBus RTS HEV’s from 2002 through 2010, and Egg Harbor operated the new generation of MCI D4500CTH Hybrid buses until they were moved to Ironbound in 2016.

Newton Avenue garage provides service on routes 316, 317, 404, 405, 407, 409, 413, 414, 417, 418, 419, 450, 451, 452, 453, 455, 457, and 460. So look out on these routes for New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE electric buses!

About the author: Dash

I have been with Virtual Transit Center since it's conception as the "Dash Forums" back in 2008. Since then, I have been writing and doing YouTube side by side, focusing both on Transportation and Gaming. Most of my knowledge comes from SEPTA as I lived in Philadelphia for most of my life. As of 2021, I am on YouTube as DashTransit, Dash5155, and TheDashOfficial.

As for the name DashTransit itself, it actually stems from my YouTube channel.

DashTransit was originally called "njt5329" and the channel was just clips of buses. Mostly SEPTA and NJT. A Fujifilm Finepix was used in this era.

Starting in July 2011, the Canon SX130IS camera became the camera of the channel, bringing HD documentary-style videos much like my buddy (trainman1971) did for DVD for many years past. This is when the channel became known as "Transit Action Series"

In May 2012, the original Canon SX130IS retired, and then all videos were recorded off a mobile phone until eventually uploaded proved too difficult due to hardships IRL

Starting in 2017, I used a Canon SX200IS from Bastranz to reboot the channel that otherwise was dead for a whole year prior.

Between April 19th, 2019, and January 21st, 2021, all videos were recorded by a Canon SX710 HS camera. The channel was renamed DashTransit 4/19/19.