Submitted via IRC for Fnord666_
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/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:25PM
> A million dollars per bus, after you add charging and maintenance facilities.
(from a 2014 press release about NYC Transit's purchase of diesel buses [mta.info])
Proterra's bus is 40 feet long.