Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by dver on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:58PM
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Working at Proterra, we're doing our part.
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Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by dzhiurgis on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:40PM
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Can you outline a bit how cities are customising the buses?
I've a bit of the report posted here a week or so. There are over 20 companies (of course ones in US and EU paying 2-3x over Chinese ones) and I can't fathom what they are competing over. Seems like a huge waste of resources.
Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by dver on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:28PM
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It's one of the difficulties in manufacturing for US entities is the huge amount of customization. Pretty much everything outside of the shell, battery pack and motor, can/is customized.
We of course think our tech is better.
Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by acdha on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:28PM
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I’d love to see a tech news blurb about the new DC Circulator buses - efficiency, durability, etc.
Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by brightball on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:33PM
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Live in Greenville, SC and was waiting for a Proterra comment. :)
Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by dver on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:18PM
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I work out of Bay Area office in Burlingame.
I'm back in the Greenville site a bunch. Really nice area, the downtown is super active, people really friendly. My wife and I have it on the think about list for bugging out of CA.
Plus they just bought some of our buses.
Re:Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
by francisofascii on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:02PM
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Cool! I saw Proterra made the new DC Circulator buses.