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* Colorado - Proterra Electric Bus travels 700 miles in 24 hours with regular recharging
Golden,COL,USA -Green Cars Reports, by Stephen Edelstein -May 10, 2014: -- While electric cars make headlines, a number of electric buses have silently made their way onto U.S. city streets as well--and they're proving that they can go the distance... Proterra, for instance, has now set a record for the most miles traveled by an electric bus in a day, according to Charged EVs... As part of a test conducted last month, one of Proterra's plug-in buses traveled 700 miles in 24 hours, over a route designed to simulate both urban commuter and central business-district routes and drive cycles... The bus was driven at an average 29 mph with the HVAC system running, and was charged periodically throughout the day using Proterra's own fast-charging stations... Proterra says the bus averaged 27 MPGe, which it claims is six times that of a conventional diesel bus in comparable conditions, and seven times that of a compressed-natural gas (CNG) bus...
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