How to Start aZEB Fleet

& other tales from the front lines

How to Start a ZEB Fleet

• Moderator– Steve Clermont, Director of Planning & Deployment, CTE

• Panel– Norm Hickling, Director of Strategic Planning and Development, Antelope

Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) – Salvador Llamas, Chief Operating Officer, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit

District (AC Transit)– Kevin Parks McDonald, Deputy Executive Director, Foothill Transit – Simon Horton, Senior Project Manager in Transportation Electrification

Project Management, Southern California Edison (SCE)– Bill Zobel, VP Market Development and Strategy, Trillium

US ZEB Annual Awards & Deliveries

Source: Center for Transportation & the Environment

ZEB Awards & Sales

Source: Center for Transportation & the Environment

The BEB Challenge

U.S. Department of Energy: 38 kWh is equivalent to 1 gallon of diesel

40’ Diesel Bus 40’ Battery Bus (450 kWh)

Electric Drive is four times as efficient as the Internal Combustion Engine. 12 DGE can deliver power equal to 48 gallons of Diesel48

Source: Center for Transportation & the Environment

The Challenge for 100% ZEB Deployment

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Infrastructure and Scalability

Source: Center for Transportation & the Environment

ZEB Pilot & Transition Planning

• What ZEB technology works best for my service requirements?• Where can ZEBs be used and how to increase level of service over

time?• What is my fleet replacement schedule and how do I meet the

CARB ICT regulation?• How will technology improve over time and how does that impact

my transition strategy?• How does infrastructure requirements change with larger number

of ZEBs?• How to plan for increase in infrastructure capacity over time?

AVTA

• November 2014 procured two BYD 40’ battery electric buses Demonstration Project

• February 2016 awarded contract to BYD for 85 Battery Electric Buses. Officially established commitment to 100% ZEB fleet

– 35 45’ commuter coaches– 13 60’ articulated– 37 40’ Local Transit

• $5 Million infrastructure project for 89 Depot Charging Stations at main facility completed

• $10 Million infrastructure project for High Power Wireless Inductive Charging Systems in progress.

• Transition to 100% ZEB fleet in 2019

Norm Hickling, Director of Strategic Planning and Development, Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA)

AC Transit

• Starting in mid-2003 AC Transit operated a 30-foot Thor hydrogen-powered bus originally built for SunLine Transit.

• From March 2006 through mid-2010, AC Transit operated three 1st generation Van Hool fuel cell buses, logging over 270,000 miles and carrying over 700,000 passengers.

• Since 2010, AC Transit has been running 13 Van Hool Hydrogen Fuel Cell buses

• In 2019, AC Transit will deploy 5 New Flyer FCEBs and 5 New Flyer BEBs

Salvador Llamas, Chief Operating Officer, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit)

Foothill Transit

Kevin Parks McDonald, Deputy Executive Director, Foothill Transit

• 2010: Three* 35-foot fast-charge BEBs deployed– In-route charging at midpoint transit center

• 2014: Twelve additional 35-foot fast-charge BEBs deployed

• 2016: Two 40-foot fast-charge BEBs deployed– *One 35-foot BEB exchanged for one 40-foot

BEB• 2017: Fourteen 40-foot extended range BEBs

procured• 2017: Surpassed 1,000,000 miles of BEB service• 2018: Three 35-foot extended range BEBs

procured for a new city circulator service• 2019: Two double-deck extended range BEBs to be

deployed

Southern California Edison (SCE)

Simon Horton, Senior Project Manager in Transportation Electrification Project Management, SCE

– Utility needs to understand charging load requests and fleet transition timing as soon as possible

– What load-side management, storage or generation will be installed with EV infrastructure

– Space constraints for equipment both line-side and load-side– SCE’s Charge Ready Transport program installs no cost EV

make-ready infrastructure at customer sites in SCE territory

Trillium

Bill Zobel, VP Market Development and Strategy, Trillium

Trillium & Transit

52 Transit Agencies under contract

68 Transit facilities under contract

Transit’s Moonshot

“We choose to go Zero Emission by 2040, or earlier, not because it is easy, but because it is hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.”

- Gratuitously paraphrased from John F. Kennedy