Electric transit buses built by Proterra have displaced more than 100 million pounds of carbon emissions, helping to address the largest source of these emissions in the U.S.
Transportation represents the primary economic sector generating carbon emissions, accounting for nearly 35% of all CO2 emissions in the U.S. However, electric vehicles like the Proterra® ZX5 electric bus provide a solution for decreasing transportation-produced emissions by running on battery power instead of traditional fossil fuels. In fact, every year a Proterra electric bus operates in place of a diesel bus, it displaces 230,000+ pounds of CO2 that the diesel bus would have emitted if it were clocking that mileage instead.
With more than 700 buses in operation and more than 20 million miles driven, Proterra’s electric fleet has displaced more than 100 million pounds of carbon emissions so far — emissions equivalent to more than 50 million pounds of coal burned. Based on these numbers, it would take 750,025 tree seedlings grown for 10 years to sequester the amount of carbon that Proterra has displaced via its e-bus fleet.