Proterra, Inc.
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 2004 in Golden, Colorado |
| Headquarters | Burlingame, California |
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Area served
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North America |
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Key people
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Ryan Popple (CEO) |
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Number of employees
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51-200 |
| Website | www |
Proterra, Inc. is an American automotive and energy storage company based in Burlingame, California. The company designs and manufactures electric transit buses and electric charging systems. Proterra's Catalyst series includes transit buses ranging from 35 feet (11 m) to 40 feet (12 m) in length and various battery configurations. Buses are charged through an overhead charging station that is placed at maintenance facilities as well as route terminals.
Proterra, Inc. was founded in Golden, CO by Dale Hill in 2004. Hill had previously founded Trans Tech, a Denver, CO-based bus manufacturing company that focused on building CNG hybrid buses throughout the 1990s, as well as Alumatech, a manufacturing company that focused on aluminum dump trailers.
Following the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)'s push for alternative fuels and forms of mobility through such programs as the Clean Fuels Grant Program Bus and Bus Facilities Clean Fuels Grant Program Bus and Bus Facilities (5309, 5318), and the TIGER and TIGGER programs, Hill wanted go beyond the success of his CNG buses that launched the world’s first fleet of alternative fuel buses at the 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado. He wanted to create a company that would take the lead in creating zero-emission, U.S.-based transit buses.
This was particularly important since many of the programs, including the Clean Fuels Grant Program and the TIGGER program, either exclude CNG buses and facilities, explicitly require capital investments that assist in reducing the energy consumption of a transit agency, and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions of a transit agency.
In 2010, Proterra announced that it would move its manufacturing plant from Golden, Colorado to Greenville, South Carolina due to its close proximity to Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). The company moved its headquarters and manufacturing plant to Greenville, SC in 2011.
Ryan Popple, formerly of Tesla Motors, was appointed CEO in 2014.
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