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Electric Bus Sales to Public Transit Agencies Nearly Doubles in 2017

The total number of fully electric, battery-driven buses delivered for use in public transit in the United States grew in 2017 by 83%, with total buses in service reaching 333.

Although market penetration remains low at about 0.5% of the total U.S. public transit bus market, 9% of all transit agencies either have electric buses in service today or have electric buses on order. In 2017, electric bus sales represented over 2% of new public transit bus sales in the U.S.

Electric bus manufacturers have signed contractual orders with public transit agencies, generating a backlog that will take over a year to be built, with deliveries to take place in 2018 and beyond. The backlog has grown by 44% year to year and now sits at 514 buses, equal to slightly below 10% of annual sales of public transit buses in the U.S. This firm order backlog consists primarily of new contracts signed in 2017.

From a state perspective, the primary consumer of electric buses in public transit is California. Transit agency commitment to electric buses can be viewed as a sum total of buses that have been purchased and are in-service plus buses that have been ordered. California transit agencies have committed to 357 electric buses, with the next closest state being Indiana with 52, followed by the state of Washington with 46 (see ebstart.co for a list of all states). Transit agencies in the state of Washington have committed to purchase over 135 electric buses by 2020.

The industry sales leaders remain Proterra and BYD, both of which have recently tripled their manufacturing capacity to keep up with the demand. Proterra’s manufacturing plants are located in Greenville, South Carolina and in the City of Industry (LA) in California.  BYD manufactures electric buses in Lancaster, CA. New Flyer’s backlog of signed contracts is growing rapidly and all of their manufacturing facilities (Indiana, New York, Minnesota, Alabama and Manitoba, Canada) are now capable of building electric buses.

[source: EBStart]
Jan 29, 2018Blagojce Krivevski
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Blagojce Krivevski is physicist and green technology lover. Keep in touch with Blagojce through his email, web site, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and Google+.

January 29, 2018 Electric Car NewsBYD, electric bus, electric bus sales, Electric Buses, ev sales, New Flyer, plug-in sales, Proterra
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