Poised for electrification of buses and trucks, charging company opens facility in Atlanta

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Heliox CEO Michael Colijn (left) shakes hands with Georgia's economic development commissioner Pat Wilson as the company's U.S. Technology Center Opens in Atlanta (Emil Moffatt/WABE)

Inside Heliox’s just-opened U.S. Technology Center, a brand new MARTA electric bus sits quietly charging. 

And it feels a bit like the future.

But David Aspinwall, the president of Heliox North America, says he expects the transition to electric buses to happen sooner than one might think.