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These school buses no longer belch pollution. They also give the grid a break.
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Would it help that much on weekdays? It looks like peak loads are right about when the buses would be busy driving. But it would still be usefull for weekends I'd think.
Edit: looks like it changes quite a bit seasonally.
Edit 2: here's solar and wind supply
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268074971_The_New_Hybrid_Model_of_Compressed_Air_for_Stable_Production_of_Wind_Farms
Evs are nice, but not a solution. Walkable bikable cities are the way we get out of this climate mess.
Electric buses are a positive though, as transit is still going to be needed.
What we should not be doing, though, is making laws that require EV buses instead of improving bus service in general.
Yeah. Good point.
I guess a thought I had is that instead of school busses, what if we used a public transit option for everyone? But then everyone would need to use it and we're not there.
School busses are def better than everyone driving their own students to school and back. So that was something I missed in my initial post.
Im just over the whole "ev revolution" but taking that out on busses is silly.
If you live where it's nice and warm year round sure. I personally have no interest in an eight mile commute to work in the snow and ice when it's below freezing for months.
Agree, but you'd need a lot more schools for that since currently they're too big right now to walk/bike to from all points within the district.
They can recharge mid-day when generation is highest, which helps balance supply, and in theory they could still help in the afternoon after they finish their routes say 5/6pm
Yeah you'd definitely charge mid day, but you don't need reverse charging for that. I'd think you'd size the battery just large enough for your route. So there wouldn't be much energy left over to put into the grid. Maybe when the bus is new or when they don't need to run the AC or heading you'd be able to put more energy back into the grid?