{"id":137529,"date":"2022-03-30T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/st-louiss-new-fleet-of-18-new-flyer-electric-buses-powered-by-abb-chargers"},"modified":"2022-03-30T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:02:17","slug":"st-louiss-new-fleet-of-18-new-flyer-electric-buses-powered-by-abb-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/st-louiss-new-fleet-of-18-new-flyer-electric-buses-powered-by-abb-chargers","title":{"rendered":"St Louis\u2019s new fleet of 18 New Flyer electric buses powered by ABB chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/st-louiss-new-fleet-of-18-new-flyer-electric-buses-powered-by-abb-chargers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city of St. Louis, Missouri fleet plans to deploy 18 electric buses on the city\u2019s busiest routes. Charging infrastructure for the 60-seat New Flyer buses will be provided by Swiss\/Swedish electronics giant <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/?s=ABB\">ABB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis transit agency Metro Transit says it expects the e-buses to reduce carbon emissions by 100 to 160 tons per year, and to deliver up to $125,000 in maintenance savings and $400,000 in fuel savings over their 12-year lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>ABB will provide 23 Buy America-compliant chargers, with a total of over 4.35 MW of charging capacity. ABB\u2019s sequential charging system consists of 20 plug-in depot chargers, each with 150 kW of power, and three additional pantograph chargers. St. Louis\u2019s buses can be fully charged in one hour. ABB says its fast-charging system easily integrates with existing transit schedules, so cities can switch to zero-emission buses without disrupting existing routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of St. Louis, Missouri fleet plans to deploy 18 electric buses on the city\u2019s busiest routes. Charging infrastructure for the 60-seat New Flyer buses will be provided by Swiss\/Swedish electronics giant ABB. St. Louis transit agency Metro Transit says it expects the e-buses to reduce carbon emissions by 100 to 160 tons per [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}