Lackey"
Sent: 29-Oct-22 08:14:39
Subject: Re: [EVDL] EV school buses
EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
Lee Hart via EV wrote:
That's $400,000 per bus! ... You're not going to get many schools to adopt
them at that price.
Maybe some high school shop class should take on the challenge of
convert
EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
Lee Hart via EV wrote:
That's $400,000 per bus! ... You're not going to get many schools to adopt
them at that price.
Maybe some high school shop class should take on the challenge of
converting one?
Wouldn't that be great? Healthy for both the schools' budgets
School buses are way more the $50,000.
On 10/27/2022 12:57 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote:
... $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500
clean school buses under a new federal
program. ... Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were
electric as of last year ...
That's $400,000 per
Our supt said 275k.
Sincerely,
Bob Bath
541.761.0838
Note: any misspellings of the contents of this message are due to 56 y.o.
vision, hyperactive spell check changing what I typed, or fat fingering— not
cluelessness.
> On Oct 27, 2022, at 10:44 AM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
>
> On
On 27 Oct 2022 at 11:57, Lee Hart via EV wrote:
> That's $400,000 per bus! ... You're not going to get many schools to adopt
> them at that price.
Nice work if you can get it, eh? :-\
ICE bus design is pretty much fully amortized, and their manufacture has
more economy of scale. But that's
... $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500
clean school buses under a new federal
program. ... Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were
electric as of last year ...
That's $400,000 per bus!
According to the American School Superintendents Association (AASA), a
new ICE
On 26 Oct 2022 at 15:04, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
> ... $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500
> clean school buses under a new federal
> program. ... Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were
> electric as of last year ...
So this represents a potential 52% increase in
Totally concur, but the companies coming to the dance at this point (ie have
product) are less than stellar.
There are also infrastructure issues needing to be addressed as well (ie adding
level 3 charging at the bus shed).
Sadly, my district in southern oregon will not be a “pioneer”, but
Probably this isn't news anymore :)
I think this is particularly a good move. School buses generally don't
have very long routes, start and stop a lot, and carry "precious
developing lungs" on board. Especially when buses are queued, exhaust
from the bus in front gets sucked into the cabin of
