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I am glad Seattle got e-buses, but it made me think: didn't the SF-CA bay area (especially Silicon Valley) get e-buses? Below is a dated item I posted where some were thinking about it: [dated] http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-e-bus-company-targeting-SF-CA-Peninsula-tp4681674.html EVLN: e-bus company targeting SF-CA Peninsula Apr 24, 2016 ... SamTrans is still years away from implementing electric buses, however. Electric buses tend to cost about twice as much as a 40-foot diesel bus, which cost around $508,000, SamTrans spokeswoman Tasha Bartholomew said ... [defined] samtrans.com SamTrans is a public transport agency in and around San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It provides bus service throughout San Mateo County and into portions of San Francisco and Palo Alto. So, to clarify for non-locals, SamTrans is only half of the public bus picture (from the northern part of Silicon Valley northward). From Palo Alto (Santa Clara county) on south is handled by VTA ... http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/VTA-Lands-25M-Federal-Grant-to-Buy-Electric-Buses-389559952.html VTA Lands $2.5M Federal Grant to Buy Electric Buses Aug 8, 2016 - The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority was awarded nearly $2.5 million to purchase a new fleet of zero-emissions buses as well as ... ... http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-jose/2624747-silicon-valley-vta-will-soon-get.html Silicon Valley VTA will soon get Proterra electric buses ... Aug 4, 2016 - I was wondering when this was going to happen...apparently VTA does plan to purchase Proterra fully electric buses! They are the same size ... ... http://www.fleetsandfuels.com/fuels/evs/2016/08/proterra-lands-eight-fta-low-no-winners/ Proterra Lands Eight FTA Low-No Winners Aug 2, 2016 ... Proterra emphasized VTA, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in California, “as the Silicon Valley’s transit agency expects to roll out five 40-foot Catalyst XR buses ... So, hopefully soon, VTA's e-buses will be on Silicon_Valley-CA streets too. Here is a link of the Proterra e-bus models with specs: https://www.proterra.com/products/catalyst-40ft/ BTW, not too far from Facebook HQ (Menlo Park, next to Palo Alto) is one of too-many building booms (like we really need more expensive density of people, housing, and offices - not!). Across the street from a not-too-old a Porsche dealership built on cheaper salty-gray-silt bayland soil, is new high density housing construction. Which is around the corner an old bus maintenance shop that services the hybrid Stanford Marguerite Shuttle buses (StanfordU's own bus service). According to the wiki page on Marguerite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Marguerite_Shuttle Marguerite is the free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public to get around campus or from campus to some off-campus locations such as [Shopping Centers, Hospitals], Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) ... Marguerite has also acquired hybrid and all-electric buses (total fleet as of June 2015 was 79 buses of which 13 were all-electric and 5 were hybrid). The Marguerite shuttle is named for the four horse bus also called Marguerite run by Jasper Paulsen in the earliest days of the university; it initially cost 10 cents for students, 15 cents for others though the fare was later raised to 25 cents for everyone. ... [links http://www.in2013dollars.com/1890-dollars-in-2016?amount=0.25 $0.25 in 1890 → $6.32 in 2016 http://www.vta.org/getting-around/fares Single Ride - $2 ... images https://transportation.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/inline-images/margueritte%20wagon.jpg (4horse bus) The first Marguerite shuttle in front of the Quad (1890's) Photo: Stanford University Archives https://transportation.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/home_promotional_image_small/public/2016-08/Electric%20Buses_09.jpg?itok=h6aI8xTb (Electric bus) About the Commute Club | Stanford Parking & Transportation Services - Stanford University Marguerite bus and Caltrain train at Palo Alto Transit Center ] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Seattle-buying-100-Proterra-EV-buses-tp4685411p4685414.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
