The Catalyst was replaced by the ZX5 line in 2020.
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In 2018, Proterra discontinued its proprietary overhead "blade" charger and began offering SAE J3105-compliant overhead top-down or bus-up charging options. In 2016, Proterra introduced the Energy Efficient (E2) battery family with the slowest charging and greatest range a second drivetrain option featuring two traction motors for greater efficiency (branded DuoPower) was introduced in 2017. The Catalyst's battery packs are carried underneath the floor and are modular, so operators could switch between different battery options depending on the required route and cycle. A 35-foot (11 m) Catalyst was introduced in 2015 to directly replace the earlier EcoRide that year, Proterra also introduced the eXtended Range (XR) battery option with slower charging, but greater capacity and range. The Proterra Catalyst was an evolution of the EcoRide, initially available as a standard 40-foot (12 m) transit bus length in 2014 with the same fast-charging battery as the EcoRide and a similar composite chassis. The company entered European truck markets in February 2021. The combined company will have an estimated value of $1.6 billion USD. In January 2021 the company announced that it will be publicly listed on the NASDAQ after an upcoming reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company, ArcLight Clean Transition Corp (NASDAQ:ACTC).
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In September 2018, Daimler, the former parent company of Orion Bus Industries, invested $155 million in Proterra. Īs of January 2017, the company has sold more than 375 buses to municipal, corporate and university transit agencies in 20 states. Proterra moved its headquarters from Greenville, South Carolina, to Burlingame, California, in October 2015. In 2015, Proterra was awarded a $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission to fund the design, development and construction of the company's battery-electric transit bus manufacturing line in the City of Industry, California. Ryan Popple, formerly of Tesla Motors, was appointed CEO in 2014. In October 2011, the company announced it would consolidate all operations in Greenville, moving management and research teams from Colorado.
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In February 2010, Proterra announced that it would move its manufacturing plant from Golden, Colorado to Greenville, South Carolina due to its close proximity to Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). This was particularly important since many of the programs, including the Clean Fuels Grant Program and the TIGGER program, either exclude CNG buses and facilities, explicitly require capital investments that assist in reducing the energy consumption of a transit agency, and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions of a transit agency. He wanted to create a company that would take the lead in creating zero-emission, U.S.-based transit buses. Hill had previously founded TransTeq, a Denver, Colorado, bus manufacturing company that built CNG hybrid buses throughout the 1990s, as well as Alumatech, a manufacturing company that made aluminum dump trailers.įollowing the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)'s push for alternative fuels and forms of mobility through such programs as the Clean Fuels Grant Program Bus and Bus Facilities, and the TIGER and TIGGER programs, Hill wanted go beyond the success of his CNG buses that launched the world's first fleet of alternative fuel buses at the 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado. Proterra, Inc., was founded in Golden, Colorado, by Dale Hill in 2004.