The Ex-Tesla Executive Electrifying Mass Transit
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- When it comes to sustainability, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a top line item. But while the general public focuses on electric cars like Tesla's Model 3, clean energy startup Proterra is leading the charge to electrify buses and large vehicles across America.
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As a mass-transit fan, i love proterra. I’ve only rode the DC Circulator once on an electric bus and my hometown area of Norfolk, Virginia will receive 6 buses later this year. 👍🏾
How was it ?
UCLA has electric bus around as well. They are super quiet and comfortable compared to the trashy gas kin. Especially when the gas ones starts and stop, the engine noise is just unbearable.
I never heard anyone being transit bus fan
You must admit that Gillig and New Flyer have much better looking all electric buses.
My local transit agency; Knoxville Area Transit is supposed to get some New Flyer XE40s in 2021.
First they should rethink the transportation system in many US cities, the main problem is that governments don’t invest in their infrastructure.
Damz Studio yeah 😆😄 they use the highway tax you pay every Gal gas to pay everything but highways . NYC uses all the folks to find subways and busses
its not a lack of investment into the infustructure, cities invest into infustructure most used and critical. the US in general has a culture of cars you can say. its more normal to want a car than to use public transit. if more people where to stop owning and using cars and using public transit then the cities would invest more.
but if a city council where to just suddenly dump a lot of money randomly into a widely unused infrastructure, they are going to loose voters because that money will have to be pulled from other infrastructure improvements, as well as increase traffic on the roads with more busses.
if you really want to fix this problem, get people to stop wanting cars and start using public transit in order to make cities be able to invest in it
@@coreytaylor447 Its kind of the other way around. Build the transit and people will use it. Surveys tell us this. But cities continue to fund highways because its all they know how to do and there are certain government mandates that force cities to build more highways. Google "level of service". European countries dont have these types of mandates. They spend money where it makes the most sense for long term plans, not short term political gains.
and the american stereotype of needing to have a car
USA's over dependence on cars is the big issue here, start commuting in healthy ways instead of buying 1 car per head
This is encouraging
💯
i live in shenzhen, and the city has fully electrified all buses and taxis, first city to do so in the world
I know. It's easy for chinese govt to do so. But in democratic countries govt has to face many hurdles
@@adityakishore4260 Not exactly true. They have them in most European countries and they are democratic. The truth is that GREED in American is what's preventing this innovation from taking over. The politicians are bed with the old money guys/companies still building those ancient things they call buses
@@adityakishore4260 more like the republican countries because it's gonna interfere "muh freeeidom"
@@sarips841 👏🤣
Great example for the world! Cheers from Perú
The City of Albuquerque had ordered electric buses for their new BRT system from the Chinese bus company BYD. Unfortunately, the buses were tremendously flawed and the city ended up suing BYD. Unfortunately they settled and agreed not to bring anymore negative press against the company, completely getting rid of any consequence for BYD for selling the city defective and unsafe buses. This is why we need companies in America making good and competitive electric buses.
Great that happened now we can rely on Proterra and other Battery Electric Buses. I'm game.
Not just America. We need more companies out there manufacturing electric busses and dump trucks etc to compete against BYD and other Chinese manufacturers
Green power and Proterra should be able to fill that need here stateside
@@jakemullins4002 Green Power a company?
Europe does have a large fleet of electric mass-transit, it's called a tram (streetcar).
@Db Trams have a pre-determined route to follow. Why should they be battery powered? Also you do know that if they were battery powered they would be less efficient right? They would be more bulky cost more be more to prone to decrease in range and so on. Having them connected to grids where possible is a much better option.
Public transport has regular and fixed routes... there's no point in dumping hundred thousand tons in batteries when you can use a grid. Building those batteries is also pollution, and all the ecologists, both amateur and involved in engineering these cars, seem to think those resources are infinite, when lithium reserves are like 15 mill tons. We in eastern Europe have both trams and trolleybuses... we still have trams from like the 60's, the mechanical part mostly require maintenance, while the carriage compartments have been rebuilt like 3 times since. Batteries should be saved for the small cars. The problem imo are the politicians that want an over-night fast and easy solution like electric buses, rather than investing money in the local economy and at least build the infrastructure, that has up to 40-50 years life.
@@gheaflorin Great read of the situation my friend. This lack of vision from politicians is a major limiting factor for such problems all over the world. Then again citizens also do not demand from their politicians to deliver on such issues, which is why the politicians don't seem to care much about these issues.
@Db And charging batteries does not require attaching to a grid?
@@ItsNotAllRainbows_and_Unicorns Not necessarily - It could be done from off-grid production by means of smart charging and with detachable batteries. But that would make more sense in rural places.
A cultural change needs to take place in addition to electrifying current forms of transport
@Max à Million when people think of alternatives to diesel appliances the majority of them think of it as a cheap, unreliable gimmick.
@Max à Million I don't want to speak for the original comment but In my mind it's this idea that actually just less consumption is better then making products more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
@@sandyboyd7040 Sometimes I think covid-19 is Nature's way of telling us we need to change the way we live.
@@aperson2730 Covid-19 is the result of an unsustainable practice - i.e. wet farms. It's a symptom of a much bigger problem, and shows the need for thinking into the long-term, because the implications can hit us at any point.
@@koolyman What would you say is the "bigger problem" in general?
I came to the US for college in 2015 when the city buses are switching to E-buses in my city. When I graduated in 2019 and went back home, all city buses were turned to E-buses...While there are still people in the US asked me if China has a bus or not...
Electricity generated by coal. Progressive!
Y Alz you are right that’s the sad truth :(
Yep fuelling their ability for e-buses from their enormous fossil fuel market, set to become larger when they introduce an international carbon market in the coming decades which goes directly against the world's efforts to reduce C02 emissions.
@@yalz302 Not 100% true, around half of electricity generated in China is not by coal.
@@johncarey1024 The truth is the US has left the Pairs agreement, not China. You need to take into account fuel consumption per capita, not the sum of the consumption for each region. The US is much higher than many parts of the world.
In my city, Cluj-Napoca, we have 50+ battery electric buses + lots of trolley buses and trams
Hi to Romania from The Netherlands! I've been there once with school ;) Cool place
Az a baj, hogy Kolozsváron kívül Romániában és Magyarországon nem nagyon látszódik változás. Pesten örülsz ha a Bkv egy új dízel buszt vesz, a tízéves holland helyett.
Thats more electric buses than the state capital of the United States ha. The big heard hurdles with electric buses in the US is not technological it's a combination of impractical lazy land-use policy, and cultural detest of public transit. Vehicles are used for everything period no questions ask. People drive everywhere; work, gym, entertainment, bars, concerts, museums, hospital etc. You name it we drive. It is extraordinary rare to use public transit. For that reason I think the US will be one of the last countries to reach a net zero emissions standard.
@@RedShoesSmith- Personal crime on public transportation and in and around the stations puts people off. People feel at least some security when inside a private box on wheels with the doors locked.
How do the transit police of China deal with ruffians, robbers, thugs, rapists on buses and trains and in the stations and around the stops?
Trolley buses is the best. Better energy efficiency.
Electric buses don't wear out, deteriorate from age to nearly the degree that combustion engined buses do. Where electric buses that are powered from overhead wires have been used for a long time, 40 years life is the usual.
I don't think most places have the room for trams or trolleys these days unless we get rid of all other means of transportation vehicles. So EV buses would be better for this country and it'll be able to modify it's routes whenever the demand is especially when the economies change with the times.
@Db With battery swapping, battery leasing, and super chargers, they will be more flexible than electric grid buses because they aren't always on a pre-determined route.
Electric Street cars (trams) have existed over 100 years and electric buses for decades.
So true
radry100 - GM and Ford conspired in 1940's to kill the Electric Streetcar, Electric Intraurban Trains.
google - GM Streetcar scandal.
MAKES YOU WONDER WHO IS PAYING OFF WHOM???
Two things:
- Is the background music dub techno?
- That shot around 0:53 is from Panama City. I can tell because of the diablo rojo.
Lmao grouping busses and freight trucks together at 30% of emissions is astonishingly misleading. I’d like to see a breakdown of how much buses actually contribute, probably not that much especially not on a per person transported basis.
It's not that simple. First, do we care about climate change or air quality? Trucks on highways contribute to climate change, but don't do much to air quality. Buses on the other hand probably emit less CO2, but far more toxic stuff and at the exact worst place, where most people live.
Also we don't have to choose, we can and should do both. Tesla will take care of trucks, but has no plans for buses, so it's logical to start there. From a business standpoint too, buses are fairly simple, cities are willing to spend extra money on green tech and there's virtually no competition.
@@andrasbiro3007 that's such a logical angle
@@andrasbiro3007 Dont disagree, i was just saying its misleading. Also busses are far more efficient than personal car use in cities so just dont want to see them vilified.
1:55 actually Europe is putting a lot of effort in converting to cleaner energy and is miles ahead of America on that.
Heheh ....... he....Germany....he.... Denuclearization -> Recarbonization
@Alex Tran European politicians and public opinion.
Oh yeah,europe ahead particulary germany cough cough "coal addiction". Go look up investments data. Also you comparing whole continent againts 1 country.
@@lorenzobolis5166 Pls don't even mention the politicians 😂😂😂
ner vie UK has been doing very well with decarbonisation eg: Climate Change act 2008 (2019) will make the UK by law go carbon neutral by 2050 also the fossil fuel car ban of 2035 (maybe 2030 soon) also around 14GW nuclear energy in the Pipeline, the massive investment into offshore wind power, tree replanting funding and £532 million into EV chargers. Also the ban on coal power in 2023. Even now only 0- 2% of the power is from coal, from 45% in 2012.
some buses in Toronto, Canada is fully electric from this company
I love what Proterra is working to accomplish.
Even a backwards city like Toronto has had electric buses for the past 5 years. Our's are made by Bombardier though so they stop working uphill or in sub -20C weather.
You’re not correct. I know first hand how the TTC has specifically design those busses to ensure how they meet canadian climate and factors that are specifically geared to Toronto terrain and climate
There isn’t a day you see couple of the busses on the corner of the street, or when you ride them the sounds of metal and glass rattling drives you mad, even the “new busses”. My favourite though are the streetcars: rather investing in electric busses at the first place, they went with those horrible things that needs expensive rail and cables maintenance regardless of the weather! And we all know how fast constructions are in Toronto right? Oh did I mentioned than leafs act like a lubricant on they degrade on the rails? Or the weather fluctuations causes the metal bend and then concretes breaks and then the asphalt on the road? The best feature of streetcar though: you gotta exit in the middle of the road hopping the cars have stopped. I’m not even get in to traffic problems. Bunch of jerks are running Toronto.
AAAAAANNNNDDDD Bombardier needs money again
Astronomony Dude - Electric Traction motors should be able to Provide Hill Climbing, in SF for example their Electric Trolly bus can outperform Diesel 10:1 , downside is it requires overhead wires.
If they were made by Boeing, they would accelerate when the driver presses the brakes!
I hope this all goes well. we need electric buses now!! I hate everytime i get off the bus and it leaves i see the big toxic fumes coming out from the back and its alott . Bad for the environment
Electric busses are perfect for city travel. The stop and go routes make it far more effective than diseals, because when an ev is stopped it's not wasting any fuel (other than running AC and other electronics) but diseal engines are kept running and they waste a lot of fuel. I'm all for this, every city council should adopt this ASAP.
We get electric buses at our campus. Very exciting
Abolish Single Family Home Zoning laws, Abolish mandatory built parking lots zoning laws, Destroy Surburbs and build 15-20 minute neighborhoods, Make it mandatory for every city to reserve one lane for buses and for biking lanes, Increase spending on Public Transportation.
Yes, yes yes yes YASSSSSSSSSS
Go public I would love to invest
BYD is far ahead.... they can't win from such a big company that already sells their electrical busses all around the world.
@@HermanWillems but you will make money in the merger when BYD buys out the stockholders at above market price ;) then you can reinvest into BYD and make more money
Done. $ACTC
@@HermanWillemsMeh Buffet himself got out of BYD..
@@Nouveau0 No he didn't. I think you're reading an article title wrong. The company itself, which is backed by Buffett, sold 3.9B of its own shares to investors.
In the Netherlands almost all of the busses are already electric. Get on that!
Not yet, but the government has set a clear path to 100% electric buses in public transport. In 2025 75% of all public transport buses are supposed to be electric.
Why hasn’t this company chose a SPAC yet??
this makes me excited about the future
@Will Jacobs Not 2 hours, but 30 - 40 minutes at a fast-charging station with current battery technology.
@@Galson88 you forgot towing. I'm in Canada and it gets cold, batteries lose 70% of their power...
I like the windows on the back that a lot of companies don't have.
With COVID-19 and how we have seen how we 'humans' are extremely vulnerable - is PUBLIC transit the way to go moving forward? We have to come up with transit methods that minimize human interaction. Personal vehicles is definitely part of that equation...
I totally agree Kevin!
I think robo taxis are better. If we used mainly robo taxis the benefit is that they could all communicate and use real time traffic data to minimize traffic as much as possible. They can also react a lot faster and communicate obstacles to other cars so they can avoid them as well.
This is exciting to see 💪🏾
They should put up an IPO asap.
Given they have their own lease program, they don't need any money. Someone very biiiiig stays behind their backs.
sudarshan dodda Wonder what SPAC they will use now that HCAC went with some other company
@@sudarshandodda2055 LOL hilarious to see these rumors that people were so sure of in the past disproven. ACTC is the spac for Proterra
Sometimes it takes an innovator to achieve the same technology we had and were using 120 years ago.
What. Is this available in 1800s? Surely battery back then isn’t as efficient
2 important points on this video.
Having buses and freight trucks in a single section makes no sense as they serve completely different purposes and MAINLY because freight trucks would make up the vast majority of that fuel consumption.
2. That being said this is still important technology as increasing public transportations percentage of trips can reduce GHG emissions in 2 way. First by direct substitution from a private vehicle usage(direct from gas powered or indirect from ev), and Second by reducing congestion (this was brought up briefly in the video but not explained). Lowering congestion lowers idling and GHG heavy infrastructure repairs.
Best of luck to this company, especially expanding out into other vehicle types.
yeah decreasing congestion is not done by widening roads - its done by creating mass transit people WANT to use as opposed to their cars. Buses are largely cramped and often late by margins of up to 10 minutes, sometimes they do not come at all, sometimes they simply drive by because there's too many people on them where I live. You can bet your ass that everyone who can afford to drives a private vehicle.
Even though I'm an auto-enthusiast, I think the creation of bus lanes that only buses can use in peak times, as well as improving significantly on public transit are critical, and hell, it would even improve my quality of life as an auto-enthusiast by getting a bunch of idiots off the road! Realistically, most people should not need a car in a well-designed city, even with suburban sprawl.
More buses with more 'private' space is a must if people are to use them with a similar degree of comfort, or there needs to be signficantly clear advantages to buses as compared to driving. Currently, neither are really offered in my city
I am literally designing bust transit hubs now, with charger connectors for the Proterra busses and making sure the design fits the proterra!
FYI there's a thing called a trolleybus... which already is an electric bus.
Los Angeles had the biggest electric bus and trolley metro system in the western United States over a 100 years ago and we threw it away. Great job Mayor (R) Fletcher Bowron!!
India has around 30000 electric buses bought under Central govts FAME scheme. It already accounts for 10% global electric bus market & it's only increasing. But designs of all top 4 sellers in India are foreign companies (2 China, 1 UK & 1 Polish).
RIP Ryan Popple, & now Proterra too.. 😢
What is this sensation? Hope? For the future? In 2020? What Madness.
In Santiago, Chile, public transportion system are switching to electric buses. This switch had positive effect directly to our quality of life. One of the main benefits of this buses besides the contribution to air quality is that they are reducing alot the acoustic contamination of our cities. All of them are manufactured by ByD, a company from China, were it seems they are currently world leaders in the manufacture of this vehicles . I hope that in a near future we have more companies dedicated to manufacture electric transportation. So this increase in competitivesness would mean a lowering in the prices.
Tell your politicians to be careful with China they want to get countries take out loans that those countries can't afford to pay back then China takes over land from those debt ed countries and eventually place a commercial port or land to eventually to convert to a military base. Then they can string arm those countries into taking over those countries. Imperialism at a sneaky best.
Majority of rail system in Europe was electrified long time ago. Big busmakers like MAN, Volvo, Scania, Mercedes are already delivering electric buses in form of hybrid in most part of Europe.
My transit organization MARTA, which I use, will be investing in electric busses in the future.
The best kind of electric bus is a trolleybus. Because it doesn't need batteries. I ride it every day))). This is a cool thing.
Why not to use light rail instead? The only downside of light rail is that it has to have enough population density in the area (about 2000 people per square mile) to be as cheap as BRT, while providing all of the benefits of rail transport, such as great scalability and not needing to be stucked in traffic jams, plus it`s not using lithium batteries.
because GM & Ford killed the Electric train, google GM street car scandal.
Proterra's design is behind at least 20 years compared to MAN, Volvo and Scania.
Love it.
Internal Combustion Engine vehicle manufacturers and BIG Oil have fooled us people all these years. Not anymore.
It’s time to get rid of the headache inducing engine sounds with the silent whine of the electric motor.
well less fooling and more just not needed anymore as it use to.
Pretty cool project. What we need next is electric or hydrogen powered cargo ships.
Love that battery leasing idea
*RIP Ryan Popple*
1977-2021
Ok, where I live in Europe we use trolleybuses a lot. And we use them for more than 50 years already. (Its buses that are electric, but instead of electricity they are connected to a powerline on top, kinda like a tram. )
And I think they are better than electric buses. You dont need to charge them, you don't need to dispose of the battery, they are cheaper. Of course, they are only viable in a big city, and you need a wire hanging above, but i think the benefits outweigh the downsides. Not saying electric buses dont have their place in mass transit, but I think a lot of it can be done with trolleybuses.
The problem with this is that electrified Transport as a Service will disrupt all transit. That includes mass transit.
They'll need to move towards smaller AV EV micro-buses. Couple that with wireless charging en route, and the smaller vehicles can use smaller batteries and constantly power graze, resulting in near constant near-on-demand service. The question is whether other upstart TAAS services (think Cruise Origin) will beat them to that sustainable business model.
Would have been good to see them discuss hybrid electric vehicles with turbines for power generation.
“Turbines?” Gas turbines are unsuitable for directly powering motor vehicles. Gas turbines are most efficient when operating at 80-90% of maximum power. An idling gas turbine consumes nearly as much fuel as at full power.
Large gas turbines are more efficient, or less inefficient, than small ones. That's to a great degree why the four engined airliner is rapidly becoming obsolete. Two large engines are much more efficient than four or three smaller ones.
If reliability was high enough we’d have airliners that have one big engine instead of two smaller ones.
@@algrayson8965 He's talking about a hybrid arrangement, like the arrangement that Wrightspeed uses. Buses probably don't drive far enough in most cases to need turbine range extenders. In applications where battery storage isn't adequate (like garbage trucks), piston engine range extenders with power recovery turbines would probably be a better (but more expensive) choice than pure turbine engines.
Huh that's HELLA smart wit dA battery binEZZ!!!;)
Weight of the bus seemes to be more than required they show find ways to reduce it which in turn increase the efficiency
"Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."
This sentence is like a veteran carpenter's hand skills
and a performer who plays both hand instruments, (such as piano and guitar)
If the head orders-
You have to divide the use of your right hand and left hand separately.
It means don't do it in a symmetrical way.
It means not to mix or skip each use.
(including all two-handed instruments, farmers, fishermen, soldiers, tailor, hairdressers, boxers, etc.)
When you work, when you eat, when you breast-feed your baby.
And the structure of the sentence-
writing down the thoughts in your head and reading and speaking them are not symmetrical.)
Imagine you're holding a tool.
First of all, the right hand-
Apply force to the tool and use it at the 'right' point.
But you don't use it for the 'wrong' point. and then you relax.
And the left hand must point to a place where the use of the right hand is better,
But if the direction is wrong, you have to fix it.
The result of using both hands differently to help each other:
The carpenter's work is intact.
The guitarist makes a natural sound.
The right hand should not apply force to 'useless place'
The left hand should not be directed 'where you don't know'.
->The carpenter will make a wrong work,
The performer will play "dissonance."
There is no one who doesn't feel dissonance
The uncomfortable chair is uncomfortable.
Logical Design of Human Intelligence:
The power of the right is obtained in the right place, and not in the wrong place.
The left's wish is to head for a better place, but to be honest.
It's 'different' and also 'together', so it is-'As one'.
This 'Pureness' can be seen in your 'body' and 'mind'.
You prove it yourself.
Also, when there is dirt in your mind,
With the "eye" of the truth that we've realized,
You can see it.
I also confess.
I looked at the world based on materialism so,
Many parts of me were against the truth.
Now I can see the shape of our minds.
It naturally makes sense why humans, unlike other animals,
have been able to achieve the present civilization.
The "selfishness" of a human being with the tools of knowledge and information
It's the instinct that no one can deny.
It is necessary for the life and satisfaction of individuals and families
But the current society has become informative and anonymous.
People don't handle inputs with their own hands on online
People don't have to face the result offline.
Everyone is making money and excreting their emotions without having to face each other.
It's full of insensitive antisocial profit-seeking, extreme need for show-off and content addiction.
The space that harms others who don't even know their faces is growing in everyone's mind.
But never get me wrong. Never!
It's not about stopping or not using tools.
for a long time,
in two pairs of axles: Right leg-left arm//
left leg-right arm=X&Ypositioning
We've been using tools to use both hands separately and together and help each other harmoniously.
So we can develop the left and right brains respectively,
We've reached our present intelligence.
Whether or not our own selfishness has stepped on the line can be felt with our own minds.
You can manage wisely so that day-to-day developed tools can be used in a beneficial way.
If someone's selfishness is endless, we can stop it together.
We can discuss how to become a better society,
and the public can easily spread the moment when justice collapses.
I hope you wake up.
Sooner or later, due to rapid changes in the global environment,
All kinds of crises can come.
And for a long time, there are people in the world who follow unnatural intelligence.
They have a spirit that has become symmetrical with only one axis. (like a bird)
If you take after them for the survival of a few,
It must be a retrogression of the intelligence and ethics that mankind has achieved.
Let's always check the facts on our own to prepare for a crisis.
Let's not leave our intelligence to any particular person, group, media, religion and scripture, special notions, symbols.
If there are reasonable suspicions, let's take a look and develop our ability to suspect
and withhold-judge with diverse knowledge and information.
Let's look into both 'truth' and 'selfishness' and let the truth control the selfishness.
It's not about being a strict instrument player and scolding a clumsy player.
Let's not criticize and hate each other by using fundamental moral principles.
Let's thank the truth and conscience are breathing in us.
If people all around the world join together in ethical and intellectual forces,
we can overcome the crisis and move on to the future.
Please send this message to the world (regardless of the source)
I emphasize again.
See the "Truth" from "Self"! (not others)
Thank you, everyone.
Mercedes, Man, Volvo and others bus companies in Europe have full electric models. Just in romania are some 200 electric buses plus trams and troleybuses. In future ,75% of european buses will be electric.
But the only electric busses i have seen in The Netherlands are the BYD K9.. .(Which is Chinese, because it had the best specifications and the best price.) No Mercedes, Man or Volvo.....
@Herman Willems I live in the Netherlands and have never seen a BYD bus before, the only buses I see are VDL electric buses wich are also cheap and quiet
Today battery, capacitor and flywheel powered buses and light rail trains eliminate the need for a network of overhead power wires. Short sections of overhead rails or wires can charge buses and light rail trains at stops and on steep grades. Buses can go off route for a distance, such as around road construction closures, before returning to established routes where the overhead charging rails or wires are available.
Some buses in the UK are now hybrids. Which is pretty decent.
Meh hybrid was cool 20 years ago but doesn't really make a decent dent in fuel consumption. Fully electric is the only sensible thing to do now.
very nice love this
Fantastic project!
The pie chart at 1:07 is wrong. It doesn't include railways & maritime transportation. BTW, in the chart, "trucks" is spelled "tucks".
They had ability to scale and proof of concept
When I was learning to drive busses in Ireland a few years back I was told England was switching to all electric busses but I haven’t heard anything about it since then, we usually follow them so we’d be next, we have an electric tram system but not buses yet
What's the track in the background? Sound like Techno to me :)
We need someone like you in India ♥️
We need more people thinking like that.
Well done. It is a very intelligent approach financing the batteries over the lifespan of a bus.
In the near future batteries will be cheaper.
In the case of an electric bus, may be reasonable combine batteries with ultracapacitors. UC's are better in regenerative braking, and they are way faster to charge.
An UC bank can move a bus from one station to the next, and recharge in a flash, reducing the size of the batteries, and transfering slowly the power recently charged from the UC bank to the battery. In the next station the bus can charge again the UC bank and take the time needed to charge the battery while is in motion.
This is a solution for the short term, in the long term UC could be needed only for fast efficient regen braking.
"In the near future batteries will be cheaper." you were super wrong. In the near future batteries will be much more expensive! Within 10 years you will replace the battery in your electric car for the actual price of the car
and exactly this is the reason why we should invest in mass transit instead of individual
This is incredible... but it's sad this has to be left to private companies. The US budget should be pouring capitol into this, and pushing this full tilt for every city in the country. If we have to depend on smart companies like this, I worry we will run out of time despite these great efforts.
There needs to be a top down restructuring.
This is awesome! I hate those stinky buses and trucks. Especially when I have to drive behind them (yes, I have an electric car).
Does this guy live in the real world? Almost all of the buses around here run on natural gas, not diesel. Why would you convert to battery buses, when you've just purchased a fleet of natural gas powered buses? Much of the electricity here is already produced by natural gas anyway, so a battery bus would also be a natural gas bus. There is a 1000+ year supply of natural gas in the USA and Canada.
@Matthew Harper
But that abundance of natural gas is planned to sold to Europe in an effort for European countries to not depend on Russian for the natural gas resources.
Proterra, thanks for beginning the conversion of fossil powered public transportation to alternative energy. Still in many places public transportation is rare or non existent at all...
We really do need to put all of those to service..
2:16 just realized that was a ttc bus under production.
In finland almost 50% of the busses are electric
where to invest in Proterra?
Wondering what the issue with SEPTA is... aren't those proterra buses still in storage? They need to continue to grow the support network
Love this!
What’s wrong with Trolley buses? We used to have them years ago and then they disappeared.
GM happened. (Bought up a lot of street car systems in favor for their own diesel motorbuses).
GM and Ford killed the Electric Train, google GM street car scandal.
High capital cost, requires additional infrastructure on the street adding additional capital + maintenance costs and safety and NIMBI issues, can't reroute, can't overtake.
San Francisco has lots. They are great for hill climbing. I think they could go up a wall if they could get traction. If you are in Europe try Arnhem in The Netherlands. They have a large system and some buses automatically drop and raise their poles and run with the poles down with auxiliary power. This allows rerouting and overtaking as well as only electrifying the main routes while running on auxiliary on secondary routes.
Im 33 years old living in Seattle without a car. Totally doable, livable, and happy, but I cannot find a date. So I am about to do plastic surgery.
1:56 Is we spend most of our money on war and the army
No. The US spends most of its money on welfare and medicine.
@@S2Tubes for it's military
@@wildanh7806 Go look at the budget. Welfare and medicine make up more than half the budget, while military spending is less than a quarter.
ah yes, and abandon our allies who rely on US presence to ward off would be invaders
@@coreytaylor447- Provide them with supplies, not American blood. Let them fight their own wars.
Raising an army, providing a navy (an air force is a navy of the air) are specific constitutional functions of the United States, the federal government.
Providing social programs is not, yet they are the major portion of the expenditures of the United States.
That leasing is a great idea.
4:45 Glad this rocket scientist is running the show. Next level logic. Hope he doesn't run into the diesel bus executive that breaks the cost of the gas tank from the bus. Someone needs to tell mister pitchman that batteries are not fuel. He probably only had a minute or two to read the marketing materials between golf games, but please Mr. Fed Chairman give this guy interest free loans.
You're "buying fuel" in the sense that you're buying a vehicle that's much less expensive to operate, he's just explaining how the purchase of a more expensive vehicle can be justified.
very informative!
3:50 big emphasis on Canada, especially Edmonton.
He said “i noticed how volatile some parts of the world are”. I think what he meant to say was “i noticed how volatile *we made some parts of the world”
Sad, no one else acknowledged it. 😔
So many overlooked avenues of electrification. So many cars but buses and trucks missed
In 2019 the amazon fc director where i work promised solar panes on the roof and EV charging in the car park
Its 2020 no solar panels,no ev chargers,i m gonna go and ask him if he is dooing anything about that
This needs to go public and mainstream..stop relying on China for e-buses
Bloomberg totally rules!!!! Thank you for being awesome!❤️
I hope he builds CONVERSION KITS to convert current diesel buses, Instead of completely new buses. Adoption will be higher.
All the best to this guy.
I am long ACTC - Proterra, it will go $200+ in just a year or so !! You can 10x your money :)
People like him represent hope in this world.
Very cool video, electric busses are definitely the future!
I don't know who researches your European data but in the Netherlands alone there will be more than 2300 electric busses in 2020. So 2000 for all of Europe seems a low estimate.
You're saying you wouldn't find the political will in Europe to follow China... But in my country no new diesel busses can be sold after 2025.
Awesome news. Tell your governments to push for more E busses and get rid of all of those diesel busses sooner. Including trucks. Now we go to demand US governments to do the same.
@@robertlee8805 In EUrope we tend to push for trams instead of busses... ;-)
Next spac
Sad news, Ryan Popple has passed away. He could of been the Elon Musk of electric buses...
No one talks about the solid waste that these batteries will produce once it can no longer hold an electric charge.
recycle
@@vintageb8 exactly
If you did your research you would easily find companies that do exactly that
This guy has the next big thing
Even though I appreciate the technological achievements and the passion for developing such buses, their design looks really bad and leaves a lot to be desired. Just compare their look with the Chinese ones in the video itself. Common, you don't want to waste all that effort of developing a futuristic technology by putting them in an age-old design.
I think the design is likely due to some regulations as well
Not relying on government grants and just being cheaper and more reliable? What more could you want from a company?
Love this!! Cleaner energy and its benefits should be driven by a business case. Perhaps there is a place for hugging trees but harnessing the unquenchable power of the profit- motive is critical to the success of any green tech.
Actually, it shouldn't be. Your health and your kid's future shouldn't be up for sale. Unfortunately we have no other choice, because the government is working against us.
If you really want market forces to solve this problem, don't just wait for the prices to drop, but introduce a carbon tax and other measures to account for the huge external cost of burning fossil fuels. Once the true cost of different fuels are priced in, market forces will find the best solution. Until then the market is distorted and fossil fuels have a huge unfair advantage. Not to mention the gigantic direct subsidies the fossil fuel industry gets.
Most Chinese and European cities already driving electric Buses forever
in the uk nearly all the buses are hybrid
@2:16 TTC bus