The 10 Most Terrifying Things About Greenpower Mobility

Greenpower Mobility - All-Energy Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Greenpower develops, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric heavy and medium-duty vehicles. This includes transit buses, school buses, as well as cargo buses and shuttles.

EV Star is a highly customizable zero-emission vehicle. It's fully FTA certified, Altoona tested and Buy America certified. It offers a range that is world-class and ADA wheelchair provisions. It also has cargo delivery options.

EV Star

GreenPower Motor Company produces a full suite of high-floor and green power electric mobility scooter low-floor all-electric wheel scooter medium and heavy-duty vehicles. Their flagship vehicle is the EV Star Cab & Chassis platform, which is able to accommodate a variety of body designs and upgrades for a variety of applications. The platform's clean sheet design allows for optimal battery pack placement and lower center of gravity resulting in better payload to range ratios.

The EV Star REEFERX is designed to serve mid to last mile refrigerated delivery and catering. The class 4 refrigerated trucks' one interior wall structure and higher insulation than traditional trucks, allow for seamless sanitation and better temperature control. They also have a longer life span. The EV Star REEFERX offers superior capacity for cargo and a top payload to range ratio that is ideal for zero-emission goods and green power Electric Mobility Scooter passenger transportation.

GreenPower joined forces with Perrone Robotics in order to equip the EV Star with TONY (To navigate you) autonomous vehicle systems, which will enable fleets to move to autonomous vehicles. The AV Star will also be able to support wireless charging of 75 kW.

We were able to test drive the EV9 on the local highway for a few hours, and found it to be easy to drive and comfortable to drive over long distances. The ride is smooth over ruts and bumps, while the EV9 does an excellent job of suppressing the sound of traffic and wind on the highway. The acceleration is surprisingly quick and the vehicle has adjustable regenerative brakes that allow "one pedal driving" by lifting off of the accelerator.

The EV9 has a great range and can be fully recharged in just three hours at home or with any commercial charger. The driver can choose from two operating modes - eco mode and sport mode. Eco mode is a great way to increase the torque, cruise control and handling while sport mode focuses on speed. Both modes are fun to drive, and offer an experience unlike any other for those who've never experienced driving an electric vehicle before.

GreenPower offers several other eVehicles that include a multi-purpose all-electric minibus dubbed the EV Star. The EV Star is ADA compliant and can be used as an executive shuttle, transit or green power scooters micro-transit vanpool, bus or paratransit vehicle.

GreenPower is already producing about 10 EV Star buses per month for the Jacksonville Transit Authority, which is working to replace their fleet of older diesel vehicles with 100 electric vehicles. With the Biden Administration looking to electrify schools across the nation, GreenPower plans on ramping production to meet demand. Their EV Star bus is the first of its kind to be tested in Altoona and FMVSS-certified. Buy America compliant and ADA conforming. They will be eligible for federal transit grants. We will be following the AV Star as it makes its demonstration tour in later this year. We will be sharing more details on this exciting EV.