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This electric school bus has a range of up to 300 miles (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

School busses are one of the perfect fits for electric engines:

Set schedule with down time to charge Specific route with known distances. Heavy and must drive up hills: which benefit from amazing torque generated by Electric engines. Large internal space for battery storage

Just pray Muskrat doesn’t somehow win the bid. We’ll never see them

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon would do something ridiculous like buy Lyft for 10 billion too much and require drivers to use Teslas. He would then get a cost+percentage transportation contract. He then gold plates the interior components after a few years so the cost is higher, therefore the percentage is bigger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A tesla roadtrain has got to be one of the last things I'd ever want to see as mass transportation lol

[–] nihth 6 points 1 year ago

And as long as it can cover the longest route on one charge it wouldn't need to cover that same distance every trip. You could pick the buses route based on battery % and have them alternate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You’re forgetting the most important feature, usb charging ports for every seat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I can already imagine someone shoving gum into them :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Subscription based of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meh, outlets are superior than USB ports. USB wears out too quickly with rough use and, with USB-A, the charging cannot exceed 15W.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw a video of the latest Tesla model 3 2024 and it has one USB charging port inside the center console lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are also 2 in the back, below the screen/hvac, and there is a dual wireless charger up front, so that’s probably enough isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wireless charging isn't the same.