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4 unusual facts about Electric Transit


Electric Transit

Electric Transit, Inc. (ETI), a former manufacturer of trolley buses, from 1994 to 2004

Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (Electric Transit Service – public agency in Mexico City)

Electric Transit, Inc.

(ETI) was a joint venture between the Škoda group in the Czech Republic and AAI Corporation in the United States which made trolleybuses for the Dayton and San Francisco trolleybus systems, constructing a total of 330 trolleybuses.

With both the Dayton and San Francisco orders, the chassis/body-frame (or shell) and motors of each vehicle were fabricated at Škoda's plant in Ostrov nad Ohří, Czech Republic, then shipped to a facility in Hunt Valley, Maryland (near other AAI facilities) for initial fitting-out.


Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority

The RTA renewed its commitment to electric transit with a Board of Trustees vote to continue the trolley bus service in 1991, and the purchase of a new fleet of ETBs from Electric Transit, Inc., a joint venture of the Czech company Skoda and the U.S. company AAI Corporation, based on Skoda's model 14Tr.


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