Communities are growing and evolving, and with that, their transportation needs are changing. Now more than ever, they need smart solutions that provide safer, more reliable and cleaner transit. Every day, Proterra works to meet those needs, with the world’s best-performing zero-emission buses. Their revolutionary battery-electric buses help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality and reduce operating costs.

Proterra vehicles have proven themselves over more than 6 million miles of service in communities across North America, operating at a lower overall cost than any 35- or 40-foot diesel, hybrid or CNG transit vehicle. A revolution is taking place. Proterra is taking transit on a new route.

History

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 built CNG hybrid buses throughout the 1990s, as well as Alumatech, a manufacturing company that made 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, 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