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Electric School Buses More Than Doubled In USA From March 2022 To June 2023 (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I was going to say this. They're Ideal. You can slow-charge 16 hours a day, idle them for 4 and discharge for four.

A city bus has to do the opposite, which is why there are a lot of municipalities moving towards on-wire trolley charging, where corridors are powered with an overhead catenary system, but branches are run off-wire.