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This electric school bus has a range of up to 300 miles (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by neanderthal@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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Ideally, rezoning and infrastructure changes would reduce the need for school buses. We don't have the time though, so this is a win. Hopefully production can ramp up and governments can create incentives for schools to buy these instead of dead dino powered buses.

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[–] Sasquatch58@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

To expand on that, couldn't you also have a separate power source to warm up the bus before it was taken out on a cold morning? Something like an engine block heater for an ICE vehicle.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago*

Not even a separate power source - most EVs can pre-heat (including battery heater) using the charge lead that is already connected.

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