Battery-Powered Construction Equipment From Komatsu & Liebherr
Electrification is coming to the construction industry in the form of battery operated excavators from Komatsu and crawler cranes from Liebherr.
Electrification is coming to the construction industry in the form of battery operated excavators from Komatsu and crawler cranes from Liebherr.
New Biden team set to pick up torch from US Department of Energy, which has kept the clean tech engine running all these years.
I’ve been following San Jose’s Mayor, Sam Liccardo, for some time. In 2019, I heard from environmentalists in California about how he was instrumental in getting all-electric building legislation through the city council of the nation’s 10th largest city. I’ve also been tracking San Jose’s nation-leading efforts in clean electricity and electric vehicles.
A couple of mid-term and long-term targets are often expressed by people who follow this industry closely: 50% EV market share by 2025 and 100% by 2030. ZETA is committed to achieving the latter in the USA.
Proterra is about more than building electric buses. It is also heavily involved in designing high power charging systems and forging relationships with local communities.
A new carbon offset programs embraces zero emissions transport.
Demand for its electric buses is growing strongly, and that has led to a new battery production line inside Proterra’s electric bus factory in Los Angeles County, California.
A couple weeks ago, the City of Jackson, Wyoming’s START bus system got something new: an electric bus from Proterra. The system plans on getting at least 7 more of the vehicles.
US-based electric bus company Proterra has been a leader in the electric bus industry for several years. It appears that we first mentioned it here on CleanTechnica in 2013, and we’ve covered it dozens of times since then. The company has now passed a major milestone, selling its 1,000th electric bus.
Dominion Energy has an “Electric School Bus Initiative” in Virginia that involves the eventual rollout of 50 electric school buses in just its first phase.