Driving it forward: : Buses in the EV Boom

• Autores: Myles McCormick
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 584, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Junio)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • [Juan Carlos Zuleta] reckons 25,000-30,000 [Li]-ion-powered buses are being built annually and with bus batteries being significantly larger than those required by cars, "that requires a lot of lithium".

    In March the company announced its intention to build a new electric bus production facility at a cost of Chinese renminbi (Rmb) 4bn ($613m*). The plant is to have an output capacity of 5,000 electric buses, plus 5,000 special purpose vehicles for construction and other applications.

    Speaking to industry journal, Clean Technica, in May, Matt Horton, Proterra's vice president for sales and marketing, said that he expects "most if not all new sales [in US bus transit] will be battery electric vehicles".