With the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program investing five billion in five years in clean school buses, almost all of them electric so fWiley
investing five billion in five years in clean school buses, almost all of them electric so far, it’s easy to focus just on the electric school buses themselves. They’re big, photogenic, quiet, and emit no bad smells. They command the floor space of the shows we go to like kings and queens. We all know that Ride and Drive events – experiencing ESBs in person — win hearts and minds, from drivers and mechanics to transportation directors and superintendents.
Yet ESBs are useless by themselves. They depend completely on charging infrastructure. And getting your charging right is the hardest part of ESBs, not the waiting for the buses to arrive after you order them.
How far your charger is from the power source – the electric panel or the transformer – makes a difference While it’s easy to fuel an ESB by clicking the charger into place the humbling truth is that it’s just as easy to forget to plug in an ESB. One idea is to make it a part of the mandatory post-trip inspection checklist.
will work fine for the majority of a school bus fleet’s routes . That said, it’s a best practice to get at least one DC/FC charger if at all possible, so you can fuel quickly when you need to., especially when EPA rebate winners get just $20,000 for charging per ESB?membership can cut costs. Tim Farquer, Superintendent of Williamsfield Schools in Illinois reports on his charger purchases through Sourcewell: $4500 per NUVVE Level 2 charger; $46,030 per NUVVE 60kW V2G DCFC.
Transformers carry and manage electrical load; they are owned and operated by utilities. For electric load to substantially increase, as when lots of ESBs start charging at a given location, transformers may need to be upgraded. That’s costly. EPA’s Clean School Bus Program doesn’t cover such utility upgrades. What they do cover is $20,000 per ESB charger .Before I criticize the EPA, I’ll note that I worked in state government for almost 10 years. I have empathy for government workers.
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