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My daughters school (in Canada) uses several. They’re not only quiet, but they’re not spewing gas/diesel fumes where kids are standing around when loading, especially in the winter. They’re not at 100% electrification yet, but they appear to have around 50% of the busses as EVs.
Nice for the local residents too, as they’re much quieter running and up down the residential streets around the school.
I was going to say this. They’re Ideal. You can slow-charge 16 hours a day, idle them for 4 and discharge for four.
A city bus has to do the opposite, which is why there are a lot of municipalities moving towards on-wire trolley charging, where corridors are powered with an overhead catenary system, but branches are run off-wire.
Also mail trucks, especially in (sub)urban areas. Those things really don’t put on that many miles each day, and the type of driving they do gives them terrible mileage that would be much more efficient on the electric paradigm.
Sadly, the Grumman LLVs are set to be replaced by stock vans.
Kidding aside, I love this, but would love exponential growth more. School buses have mostly pre-defined routes and always stop at home base overnight. They’re an ideal candidate.
Well, 10! is probably enough busses to chauffeur every American to where they need to go, with a bit of coordination. So, I feel like they’d slow down at some point.
Unless this is like the trend where everyone needs to own a truck for a car, but now school buses. Then they might still go for 12!
I was walking around one morning and heard that unsettling futuristic electric car noise.
To my surprise, it was an electric school bus! It looked like every other school bus, but the bottom was blue. I saw it take off too, it seemed like it had a lot of giddy up to it.
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My daughters school (in Canada) uses several. They’re not only quiet, but they’re not spewing gas/diesel fumes where kids are standing around when loading, especially in the winter. They’re not at 100% electrification yet, but they appear to have around 50% of the busses as EVs.
Nice for the local residents too, as they’re much quieter running and up down the residential streets around the school.
school buses look like they are literally the best kind of vehicle to be electric.
premade path, with very clear requirements for range, for a few hours a day then back to the charger.
I was going to say this. They’re Ideal. You can slow-charge 16 hours a day, idle them for 4 and discharge for four.
A city bus has to do the opposite, which is why there are a lot of municipalities moving towards on-wire trolley charging, where corridors are powered with an overhead catenary system, but branches are run off-wire.
Also mail trucks, especially in (sub)urban areas. Those things really don’t put on that many miles each day, and the type of driving they do gives them terrible mileage that would be much more efficient on the electric paradigm.
Sadly, the Grumman LLVs are set to be replaced by stock vans.
From 5 to 10!
Kidding aside, I love this, but would love exponential growth more. School buses have mostly pre-defined routes and always stop at home base overnight. They’re an ideal candidate.
Technically 5 to 10! would be factorial growth. If that trend continues, we would quickly run out of space on planet Earth to hold all those busses 😉
Well, 10! is probably enough busses to chauffeur every American to where they need to go, with a bit of coordination. So, I feel like they’d slow down at some point.
Unless this is like the trend where everyone needs to own a truck for a car, but now school buses. Then they might still go for 12!
Oh you!
I was walking around one morning and heard that unsettling futuristic electric car noise.
To my surprise, it was an electric school bus! It looked like every other school bus, but the bottom was blue. I saw it take off too, it seemed like it had a lot of giddy up to it.
Back when I still took the bus to school, all the buses where and still are electric. Great to see it being nationwide!