Proterra Investor Presentation Deck
Heavy-Duty Batteries and Charging
Trucks' and Buses' Heavy-Duty Cycles are Far More Demanding than Passenger Vehicles' Light-Duty Cycles
Battery size per vehicle
(kilowatt-hours)
Olerem
-60
Average
passenger
car 1
Higher Payload &
Range Requirements
246
Proterra
Powered last-
mile delivery
vehicle
738
Proterra
Powered
Class 8
truck 2
~900
Proterra
Powered
ontainer
handler 2
Useful life (miles)
Longer Cycle-Life for up
to 10+ Years of Daily Travel
152k
Passenger
car 3
2. Based on vehicles with supply contracts that are not yet in series production
3. NHTSAS "Vehicle Survivability and Travel Mileage Schedules," January 2006
180k
Light-duty
truck 3
1. The average usable battery capacity of >170 electric passenger vehicle models in the
Electric Vehicle Database's Cheatsheet
4. 44k annual miles traveled per bus from American Public Transit Association's Public
Transportation Fact Book 2019; minimum life of transit bus of 12 years from FTA.
528k
Transit
bus 4
1M+
Class 8
long-haul
truck 5
Charging capacity
(megawatts)
0.02
Passenger
car home
AC-charger 6
Industrial-Scale
Power Delivery
1.1
Passenger
car public
DC-charging
station 7
4.3
Proterra Energy
installation
at Edmonton
Transit Services
FO
Proterra Energy
planned
microgrid
for LADOT
5. Research and Markets' "Life Cycle and TCO Analysis of Class-8 Trucks in North America,
2018-2032
7.5
6. Though the average home charger is 7.2 kW, this represents the maximum 19.2 kW (as per
Blink charging)
7. Represents a typical 350 kW DC charger at the average 3.16 chargers/station (as per EV
Adoption and Freewire Tech)
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