Prague’s early operating data suggest that selective wiring, smaller batteries and higher utilization can electrify difficult bus routes without hydrogen.
Transit agencies often reach for hydrogen after starting with real operating constraints and skipping a systems-design step. Hills, long duties, heavy passenger loads, constrained depots and the need to keep buses moving are treated as evidence that batteries cannot do the work, so the route is labelled a hydrogen case. … [continued]
Orion Energy Systems recently announced it will install 105 fast EV chargers for Boston Public Schools on a $4 million contract. EV chargers at schools often means chargers for electric buses, not hybrids, and that’s the case here. CleanTechnica has published many articles about electric school buses because they have … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a futurist electric transit bus covered in circuitry on the streets of Vancouver with the mountains in the background
Canada’s transition to electric buses is gaining momentum, with numerous cities from west to east adopting zero-emission vehicles to enhance sustainability in public transit. While hydrogen has often been getting the attention, what’s really been happening is lots of electric buses. Let’s take a trip across the country. Victoria, located … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Winnipeg City Council looking at a hydrogen bus full of Canadian money on fire
Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a pair of scales labeled CUTA with a transit bus labeled "H2" on one scale and a transit bus covered in circuitry on the other.
Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can benefit the whole community by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
The takeaway for me was that at least this group of executives cared about the planet and were looking to do their part.
Embedding wireless EV charging systems in roadways may seem futuristic, but on Germany’s Autobahn the future is now.
Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat, has delivered 32 fast chargers to Tide Bus in Denmark’s fifth-largest city, Vejle. This marks Vattenfall’s first Power-as-a-Service project for passenger transport. Tide Bus, which is one of Denmark’s largest bus companies, is operating its electric buses all … [continued]
Converting to electric vehicles for fleets has never been more compelling, and the recent rise in gas and diesel fuel prices has hammered that home. Fleet managers across the US and globally are facing pressure to electrify their fleets. There are many considerations and decisions that come with making the … [continued]
