The Volkswagen emissions settlement resulted in the Greensboro Transit Authority receiving approximately $500,000 to purchase an electric bus and install a new rapid charging station. | Stock photo
The Volkswagen emissions settlement resulted in the Greensboro Transit Authority receiving approximately $500,000 to purchase an electric bus and install a new rapid charging station. | Stock photo
The Greensboro Transit Agency is set to benefit with a half-million dollars from the 2016 Volkswagen settlement that led to a $14.7 billion payout to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The settlement money came from the scandal in which Volkswagen was accused of intentionally cheating emissions tests on diesel vehicles sold in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission said in a news release in 2016. The settlement involved nearly 500,000 diesel vehicles from model years spanning from 2009 to 2015.
A post on the City of Greensboro website said that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality awarded the Greensboro Transit Authority a $501,838 grant that will go toward the transit authority's battery-electric bus program.
The money will assist in the replacement of an existing diesel bus as well as the construction of a new quick-charging station for electric buses at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot.
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