About the EcoRide™ BE35

Our EcoRide™ 35-foot, low-floor composite body transit bus is built upon a battery-electric vehicle architecture including the key enabling technologies:

• Our proprietary composite body reduces weight approximately 20-40% over a conventional steel or aluminum bus, is crash and element resistant and is designed specifically to accommodate the battery-electric drive technology.
• Our proprietary TerraVolt™ Energy Storage System can be charged in under 10 minutes. The cells are packaged in proprietary 23-volt modules along with our proprietary battery management system (8 modules per box) in a package that fits neatly within the composite floor structure in order to maintain a lower center of gravity and even weight distribution.
• Our ProDrive system is powered by a single UQM PowerPhase® 150  permanent magnet (PM) motor with custom engineering for Proterra and is rated at 150 kW peak (100 kW continuous) power and generates 650 Nm of torque. The drive motor is coupled to a three-speed transmission designed to meet requirements of Proterra’s heavy-duty transit applications. The transmission allows the traction motor to operate within the 92% to 95% efficiency range for both driven and regenerative braking modes. While our EcoRide™ BE35 is a pure battery electric bus, its design allows for addition of auxiliary power units (APU) for recharging the energy storage system where vehicle routes or lack of electrical infrastructure does not make charging stations possible or desirable.