Comments on: America’s First All-Electric School Bus!

By: Others

Others — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 03:41:00 +0000

Wonderful, a school bus may travel only around 20 miles in the morning and another 20 miles in the evening. So a bus with 50 mile range will do (40 miles + 10 mile buffer).

By: SEPCO-SolarLighting

SEPCO-SolarLighting — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:34:00 +0000

Excited to see these start to roll out and not only help our schools save money, but also teach our children about saving the environment.

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:25:00 +0000

Now the kids won’t have to poison their brains with diesel fumes when in the bus…

MrEnergyCzar

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 04:18:00 +0000

Wow, I just found out there are almost half a million school buses in the US. No wonder they keep turing up in movies.

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 04:07:00 +0000

Because of all the stops they make it is possible for school kids to beat a bus on a bicycle so that suggests an 80 mile range might be good for over 6 hours driving, although heating or air conditioning demands might cut into that. And there is always the option of extending the range by putting solar panels on the roof.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:36:00 +0000

80 miles is fine for many bus routes. Most routes try to keep on bus time at a minimum. With all the stops I would suspect routes are fairly short in order to keep ride lengths to no more than an hour.

The bus will make a morning run and then have the day to recharge for an afternoon run. Seems like a perfect application if the cost is reasonable.
Gosh, the stuff one finds on the web.

Average bus miles per year – 12,000. Average school days per year – 180. Two trips per day makes the average bus route 33 miles. Probably three-quarters of all bus routes could be driven with an 80 mile range electric bus.

http://www.americanschoolbuscouncil.org/issues/environmental-benefits

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 00:52:00 +0000

Looking online I see that it will apparently come with a choice between 80 and 100 miles of range. An 80 mile range seems plenty for a school bus to me, but I don’t know much about school buses. We have one in Adelaide but it always seemed a bad idea to me.

By: wattleberry

wattleberry — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 23:41:00 +0000

These ‘agnostic batteries’- I’m a believer…

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:58:00 +0000

Range? Cost? Planning on finishing this draft?