American Designed & Built

The Future
of Transit
is Here.

OneBus is the modular, right-sized electric bus engineered to solve transit's $2B annual overspend problem — smarter, safer, and dramatically more affordable than anything on the market today.

Energy savings vs. conventional transit
$110M+
Fleet savings (medium-size) over 12 years vs. competing electric buses
$2B
Annual transit overspend OneBus is built to fix
3 Months
Delivery vs. 18-24 months from current suppliers
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Transit is broken.
We're fixing it.

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$900k+

Sky-High Capital Costs

Current buses are overpriced, oversized, and require 18–24+ months to deliver. Transit agencies are trapped in a broken procurement cycle.

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25×

Chronically Oversized

Modern transit buses are 1.6× to 25× oversized for actual ridership — burning fuel and budget on empty seats mile after mile.

$2B

Annual Operational Waste

Transit operators overspend $2 billion annually due to poor fleet utilization, high energy costs, and outdated vehicle designs.

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675

Driver Safety Crisis

Major assaults on transit workers hit 675 in FY2024 — up from 224 a decade ago. Drivers need real protection built into the vehicle design.

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Shrinking US Supply Base

Lack of domestic manufacturing leaves American agencies dependent on a fragile, concentrated, and costly supplier ecosystem.

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Lock-In

Proprietary Hardware–Software Lock

Today's ITS model ties agency software to proprietary onboard hardware — forcing custom bus builds for every agency. New buses require vendor-matched hardware, per-vehicle integration, and closed data formats.

OneBus in platooned configuration
Awarded DOE SBIR Supported

One bus.
Every application.

A single modular platform engineered for routes that today's bloated 40-foot buses were never designed to serve — priced to finally make electric transit financially viable for agencies of every size.

  • 01

    Modular, Right-Sized Design

    Built for real-world ridership, not worst-case capacity. Single product focus means faster manufacturing, lower cost, and consistent quality at scale.

  • 02

    Revolutionary Safety Cockpit

    Protected driver workstation with 120°+ visibility, positive pressure isolation, contactless fare collection, and a driver barrier — standard.

  • 03

    Drive-By-Wire Systems

    Active electric suspension, independent rear suspension, and V2V communication enabling virtual coupling (platooning).

  • 04

    Network Management Platform

    ML-based cloud software connecting bus, passenger, and agency. GTFS-Real Time, 5G connectivity, and validated 4× energy efficiency gains in deployment.

How we stack up
against the competition.

Metric — Fleet of 225 buses, 12-year TCO OneBus ★ 40′ Electric Bus 40′ Diesel Bus
Capital Cost (Fleet) $163M $270M $202M
Annual Energy Cost $0.82M / yr $1.1M / yr $4.0M / yr
12-Year TCO Premium vs. OneBus Baseline +$110.7M +$77.5M
Ride Quality Smooth, Clean, Quiet & Modern Clean, Quiet (rough) Loud & Uncomfortable
Driver Safety Protected cockpit + 360° visibility Outdated Outdated
Integrated Software Platform Built-in NMP + SaaS Add-on only None
Price per Bus ~$700k ~$1.2M+ ~$900k

Three novel systems.
One breakthrough bus.

OneBus electric bus — front three-quarter view
System 01

Safe & Effective Driver Workstation

Full 120°+ field of view, positive-pressure isolated cockpit, contactless fare collection, and passenger-facing displays — designed to reverse the driver safety crisis.

System 02

Drive System Module

Drive-by-wire acceleration, braking, and steering. Active electric suspension for NVH reduction. Radar + V2V virtual coupling — no expensive LiDAR required.

System 03

Modern IT Architecture + Cloud Platform

GTFS-Real Time, 5G/WiFi gateway, touchless fare collection, and an ML-based Network Management Platform — engineered from scratch, not bolted on.

AI and modern computing
at every level.

OneBus isn't just a better bus — it's a software-defined vehicle platform. From the driver workstation to the cloud, every layer of the OneBus system is built around modern data architecture, machine learning, and open APIs. This is transit intelligence that gets smarter every mile.

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On the Vehicle

Software-Defined Vehicle Architecture

OneBus treats the bus as a computing platform, not just a machine. A modern gateway connects all onboard systems — propulsion, doors, HVAC, safety — and streams clean, structured data to the cloud in real time.

SAE J1939 CANbus · Drive-by-wire control · 5G/WiFi gateway · OTA software updates
Network Optimization

ML-Powered Fleet & Energy Management

Our Network Management Platform uses machine learning to continuously optimize routes, schedules, and energy use across the fleet. Deployed in the field, it has already demonstrated 4× energy savings versus conventional transit on the same routes.

Proven on Agency Block 601 · 4× energy efficiency · Adaptive scheduling · Real-time load balancing
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Open Data Architecture

Interoperability by Design

Unlike legacy systems that lock agencies into proprietary hardware stacks, OneBus publishes open, versioned API contracts. Any compliant agency software — CAD/AVL, dispatch, planning — integrates once at the cloud level, not bus-by-bus.

GTFS-RealTime · Open API contracts · Transit Operational Data Standard · No vendor lock-in
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Driver & Passenger Safety

AI-Assisted Driver Workstation

The OneBus cockpit integrates sensor fusion, 360° camera coverage, and driver-assist algorithms that flag safety events in real time. The protected workstation is the hardware foundation; AI is the active layer that keeps it intelligent.

Radar-based adaptive cruise · V2V platooning control · Event-triggered video · Real-time incident alerts
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Agency Operations

Predictive Analytics & Reporting

Agencies get a live operational picture: schedule adherence, passenger loads, energy consumption, fault prediction, and NTD compliance data — all from one cloud dashboard, updated continuously from every bus in the fleet.

NTD reporting · Predictive maintenance · APC passenger counts · Schedule adherence scoring
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Manufacturing & Business

AI-Accelerated Development

OneBus uses AI tooling across the business — from engineering design validation and simulation, standing up modern and efficient manufacturing lines, business management, and marketing. Modern teams that build with AI move faster and spend less.

Simulation-driven design · AI-assisted documentation · Data-driven market sizing · Lean team operations

Founded from
experience.

Collectively responsible for $2B+ in advanced vehicle business development. The OneBus founders built Proterra — and assembled an advisor board of industry leaders spanning transit, aviation, rail, finance, and federal policy.

JH
Jason Hanlin
President & Co-Founder
DH
Dale Hill
CTO & Co-Founder
MF
Mike Finnern
Advisor — Former VP & GM Proterra Transit
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Michael Hennessy
Advisor — Former Proterra VP of Sales
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Suzanne Sullivan
Advisor — Government and Legislative Affairs
JM
Jack McFarland
Advisor — Former Proterra CFO
DG
David Garrison
Advisor — Retired Executive, Delta Air Lines
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Josh Raglin
Advisor — Chief Sustainability Officer, Norfolk Southern
OneBus — Built to last
American Designed & Built

Transit reinvented.
Built to last.

Join us in building
American transit's future.

We're pursuing a Seed Round backed by an active $10M FTA grant, $1.1M SBIR Phase II, and a Founding Fleet Program with forward-looking transit agencies. The timing is now.