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Originally Posted by masraum
Right, it's obviously only right in certain circumstances. If there's only a handful of stops and the stops are all 5-10-20 miles apart, and like you said, the bus driver would then have to foot the bill for the charge, that wouldn't make any sense.
But if it's a suburban school where the bus route is only a few miles with 30 stops and the bus gets dropped off at the bus-yard/school/central location each night, then that might be perfect.
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That’s our neighborhood and would make complete sense. In terms of implementation, you don’t dump a fleet of 20 buses and buy all EV.
You buy one or two. You put in the capacity to power 10, you put in the chargers for 4. S the fleet ages, you switch to EV.
There is some risk with early implementation. It appears that the manufacturer of the EV chargers I installed under Ph 1 of the project I’m working on went TI so Ph 2 includes funding to switch those out to a different brand.