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Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip on a Single Charge

posted by CoolHand on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the driving-all-day dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Think it was impressive when a Tesla club drove a Model S nearly 670 miles? It has nothing on what Proterra just managed. The startup just drove a Catalyst E2 Max electric bus a whopping 1,101.2 miles on a single charge. That's the furthest any EV has managed before recharging, and well past the 1,013.8 miles driven by the previous record-holder, a one-seat experimental car nicknamed "Boozer." It's not hard to see how Proterra managed the feat when you know about the technology, but this still bodes well for eco-friendly public transportation.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/19/electric-bus-travels-record-1101-miles-on-one-charge/

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:17PM (#571375)

    > It's a *BUS*. You load a semi-tractor with a trailer full of charged batteries...

    They didn't completely fill the bus with batteries. One of the articles [engadget.com] says:

    The Catalyst E2 Series buses are powered by two gargantuan batteries the size of mattresses that can store up to 660 kWh.

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