Proterra CEO Thinks One Third of New Transit Buses Will be Electric by 2020
February 13th, 2017Via: Green Car Reports:
While electric cars continue to establish a beachhead in the consumer market, electric buses are making quick inroads with U.S. city transit authorities.
Several companies already manufacture electric buses, which now operate in several cities around the country.
But the CEO of electric-bus maker Proterra believes these vehicles will soon challenge their internal-combustion counterparts for dominance of city streets.
The market share of electric buses will expand much more rapidly than has been the case with electric cars, Proterra boss Ryan Popple said on Greentech Media’s Energy Gang podcast.
Popple predicted that by 2020, one-third of new fleet bus purchases will be electric.
He went on to say that electric buses will account for half of fleet purchases by 2025, and that by 2030, every new bus purchased will be electric.
