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Battery Electric Buses—State of the Practice TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM TCRP SYNTHESIS 130 Battery Electric Buses— State of the Practice A Synthesis of Transit Practice CONSULTANTS Jason Hanlin Darby Reddaway and Julia Lane Center for Transportation and the Environment Atlanta, GA SUBJECT AREas Energy • Public Transportation • Vehicles and Equipment Research Sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in Cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation 2018 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Battery Electric Buses—State of the Practice TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM TCRP SYNTHESIS 130 The nation’s growth and the need to meet mobility, environmen- Project J-7, Topic SA-41 tal, and energy objectives place demands on public transit systems. 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