{"id":70281,"date":"2017-06-07T22:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/hyundais-new-electric-bus-has-180-miles-of-range-and-fully-charges-in-an-hour"},"modified":"2017-06-07T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:06:23","slug":"hyundais-new-electric-bus-has-180-miles-of-range-and-fully-charges-in-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/hyundais-new-electric-bus-has-180-miles-of-range-and-fully-charges-in-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai\u2019s new electric bus has 180 miles of range and fully charges in an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a lot of speculation<\/a>, Korean automaker Hyundai finally pulled the wraps off of its first mass-produced electric bus this week. It\u2019s called the Elec City<\/a>. It has a range of 180 miles, thanks to a 256kWh battery pack, according to Hyundai. A report from the Yonhap news agency<\/a> says the bus can also be fully charged in just over an hour. The company plans to launch the bus in 2018.<\/p>\n

While that\u2019s more than double what had been rumored for Hyundai, it\u2019s still a far cry from the massive 660kWh capacity of the Catalyst E2, the newest bus from American manufacturer Proterra. The Catalyst E2 supposedly gets 350 miles of street driving on a single charge<\/a>, and maybe more with some highway driving mixed in. Plus, Proterra\u2019s new bus will hit the road in 2017.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear if Hyundai would ever bring its bus to North America, but if it did, Proterra wouldn\u2019t be the only competition. Chinese manufacturer BYD has sold buses<\/a> in California. Canadian company GreenPower has a small foothold<\/a> as well<\/a>. Tesla CEO Elon Musk even flirted with the idea, though it appears that the project could be on hold<\/a> while he works on tunneling under Los Angeles<\/a>. Adoption rates could go up as electric buses get better and cheaper, too. Despite the fact that they\u2019re about twice as expensive as their diesel counterparts in the early going, a recent study from Columbia University<\/a> estimates that they could save cities money over the long haul.<\/p>\n

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After a lot of speculation, Korean automaker Hyundai finally pulled the wraps off of its first mass-produced electric bus this week. It\u2019s called the Elec City. It has a range of 180 miles, thanks to a 256kWh battery pack, according to Hyundai. A report from the Yonhap news agency says the bus can also be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70281","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}