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From page 61... ... 61 Antelope Valley Transit Authority AVTA provides transit service for the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Northern Los Angeles County. AVTA deployed two 40′ BYD electric buses onto Route 1 in November of 2014 using a local grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Read the entire page →
From page 62... ... 62 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice AVTA Dashboard BEB fleet size (OEM) Total fleet miles accumulated per month Total months in operation Number of depot chargers Number of on-route chargers Average route length (mi) Read the entire page →
From page 63... ... Case examples 63 Figure 34. AVTA's electrified route, with the blue stars representing the charging stations. Read the entire page →
From page 64... ... 64 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice 12.5 kV each, heating due to high current demands from the charger accumulates to a point where the electricity transfer becomes too inefficient. In order to solve this problem, the local utility -- Southern Cal Edison -- and AVTA decided to install the wiring in an open trench (covered in plates) Read the entire page →
From page 65... ... Figure 35. King County Metro's BEB. Read the entire page →
From page 66... ... 66 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice King County Metro's Experience King County Metro focuses on providing the best operator experience with their BEB pilot program. In doing so, they have established a close working relationship with Proterra, the bus OEM, to address the challenges associated with deploying the new technology and, in particular, the novel ground-up electric bus design. Read the entire page →
From page 67... ... Case examples 67 having fast chargers next to each other with multiple signals competing to connect to one or more buses within the same proximity. The agency is working with Proterra to determine how the chargers will determine the correct bus to "shake hands with," control, and charge, which is a technology issue that must be resolved. Read the entire page →
From page 68... ... 68 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice Metro involved included the utility companies, climate action nonprofit groups, low-income groups, and people disproportionally affected by the poorer air quality, and it interacted with them by holding community outreach meetings and releasing a "feasibility report" to solicit input on their plans of action. The community input provided a good guideline and not necessarily a direct plan of action for the agency. Read the entire page →
From page 69... ... Figure 37. City of Seneca's BEB routes, with charging stations at the blue stars on the map. Read the entire page →
From page 70... ... 70 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice City of Seneca Dashboard BEB fleet size (OEM) Total fleet miles accumulated (per month) Read the entire page →
From page 71... ... Case examples 71 Seneca's Experience Operations. Seneca operates a business loop, a residential loop, and an express route. Read the entire page →
From page 72... ... 72 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice Another successful aspect of deployment, CATBUS insisted on a month-long period of shadow service to ensure the BEBs were capable of meeting the same duty cycle of the diesel buses that they were replacing. Not only did shadowing verify the range capabilities of the BEBs but it also rung out any technical issues with the advanced buses. Read the entire page →
From page 73... ... Case examples 73 Figure 39. Foothill Transit's BEB. Read the entire page →
From page 74... ... 74 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice Figure 42. Foothill Transit's BEB route, with the blue star showing where the charging station is located. Read the entire page →
From page 75... ... Case examples 75 Foothill Transit's Experience While the NREL report on Foothill Transit does an excellent job of providing a documented comparison between the agency's CNG and BEB fleets, this TCRP case example focuses on the agency's experience in deploying electric buses and lessons learned from its operation. One of the biggest maintenance items that the agency has with CNG buses is the engine itself, some of which have been breaking down with only 60,000 miles on them due to premature cracking of pistons in the CNG engines. Read the entire page →
From page 76... ... 76 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice standard and then have the freedom to purchase any bus that also meets the standard and expect that they will safely and effectively work together. This combination thus addresses a barrier to BEB market growth and commercialization. Read the entire page →
From page 77... ... Case examples 77 IndyGo Dashboard BEB fleet size (OEM) Total fleet miles accumulated (per month) Read the entire page →
From page 78... ... 78 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice Figure 43. Read the entire page →
From page 79... ... Case examples 79 Figure 44. Sample of the routes on which IndyGo deploys BEBs. Read the entire page →
From page 80... ... 80 Battery electric Buses -- State of the practice vehicles. Supervisors provide the oversight during their normal walk around to ensure the charging is properly started. Read the entire page →

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... 61 Antelope Valley Transit Authority AVTA provides transit service for the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Northern Los Angeles County. AVTA deployed two 40′ BYD electric buses onto Route 1 in November of 2014 using a local grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.