Fast Charge Battery Electric Transit Bus In-Use Fleet Evaluation

Robert Prohaska; Kenneth Kelly; Leslie Eudy

doi:10.1109/ITEC.2016.7520220

Fast Charge Battery Electric Transit Bus In-Use Fleet Evaluation

Robert Prohaska, Kenneth Kelly, Leslie Eudy

Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences

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Abstract

The focus of this interim fleet evaluation is to characterize and evaluate the operating behavior of Foothill Transit's fast charge battery electric buses (BEBs). Future research will compare the BEBs' performance to conventional vehicles. In an effort to better understand the impacts of drive cycle characteristics on advanced vehicle technologies, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory analyzed over 148,000 km of in-use operational data, including driving and charging events. This analysis provides an unbiased evaluation of advanced vehicle technologies in real-world operation demonstrating the importance of understanding the effects of road grade and heating, ventilating and air conditioning requirements when deploying electric vehicles. The results of this analysis show that the Proterra BE35 demonstrated an operating energy efficiency of 1.34 kWh/km over the data reporting period.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC.2016.7520220 https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC.2016.7520220
State	Published - 22 Jul 2016
Event	2016 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2016 - Dearborn, United States Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 29 Jun 2016

Conference

Conference	2016 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Dearborn
Period	27/06/16 → 29/06/16

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5400-66098 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5400-67516

Keywords

battery electric bus
drive cycle
EV
fast charge
heavy duty
transit
zero emissions

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