Will Electric Buses Take Over the Transit World?

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🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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By 2020, one-third of new fleet bus purchases will be electric. By 2025, electric buses will make up half of new sales to transit agencies. By 2030, every single transit bus sold will run on electricity. That's what Ryan Popple, the CEO of electric bus manufacturer Proterra, believes will happen. And there's plenty of evidence that the shift is underway, even if the current fleet is mostly diesel and compressed natural gas. In this week's podcast, we'll talk with Popple about his plan to kick combustion engines out of transit. We'll also talk about his career path that brought him from the Army to Tesla to venture capital, and eventually to Proterra. Then, renewables are becoming the “new normal” in the U.S. We will glimpse at two important reports on solar jobs and the American energy economy that put the current clean energy boom in perspective. This podcast is sponsored by KACO New Energy, a leading solar inverter company with superior engineering and unmatched customer service: http://kaco-newenergy.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:57.8	I'm willing to bet a lot of you are listening to us on a bus right now. I know many of you
1:04.7	listen while you commute and after all there are more than 70,000 transit buses in the
1:09.3	U.S. alone. But I'm willing to bet your bus, if you're on one, is not electric. Only 1% of the transit
1:17.4	fleet runs on electricity. Our guest is out to change that. We're talking to Ryan Popple, the CEO of Electric Busmaker Proterra, about
1:26.1	his plan to kick Diesel out of the transit bus fleet. He's also got a very compelling career
1:31.1	path that brought him from the Army to Tesla to Venture Capital and eventually to Proterra and we'll talk a bit about that as well.
1:38.0	Then in the second half renewables are becoming the quote new normal in the US. We will take a glimpse at two
1:45.1	important reports to put the current clean energy boom into perspective.
1:48.7	Catherine Hamilton with 38 North Solutions is in San Francisco this week
1:53.5	coincidentally at the headquarters of Pro Terra.
1:56.8	So Catherine, you're fully immersing yourself for this show,
1:59.8	huh?
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