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This electric school bus has a range of up to 300 miles (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by neanderthal@lemmy.world to c/climate
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Ideally, rezoning and infrastructure changes would reduce the need for school buses. We don't have the time though, so this is a win. Hopefully production can ramp up and governments can create incentives for schools to buy these instead of dead dino powered buses.

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[โ€“] lemann@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

7% at the end of a ~300mi roundtrip rural run is really cutting it close ๐Ÿ˜ณ although if the journey is mostly flat I think it's OK, as long as there's enough range to go via any diversion if the road is blocked.

They could definitely get a bigger battery onto that roof, the main expense there probably would be customising the aircon to fit around a roof battery pack instead of buying one off the shelf

The electric buses here all have roof mounted batteries and they last pretty long - the chinese Yutongs are out all day with the heating on, but our domestic built ones seem to last only 3/4 of the day, and after that they vanish with the old diesel ones appearing on routes until the night

[โ€“] neanderthal@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Keep long routes diesel or gas for now and wait for battery tech to improve. Even if 70% of buses are moved to electric, it is still a big chunk of emissions that are cut.

[โ€“] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or maybe just put a charging point in at thge driver's lunchtime rest stop

[โ€“] Polar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Lunchtime rest stop?

Where I'm from bus drivers drive from 7am - 9am and then go home and come back for 3:30pm - 5:30pm.

They essentially get the entire work day off. Not just lunch.