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Proterra introduces 35-foot electric bus

Green Car Congress

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will be the first customer for the new bus, receiving seven 35-foot Catalyst FC buses and two overhead semi-autonomous fast chargers. This system can be recharged on-route in less than ten minutes at a 500kW charge rate. Proterra has demonstrated that this option can travel more 700 miles in 24 hours.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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