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Study finds V2G-capable electric school buses cost-effective with current technology; financial and environmental benefits

Green Car Congress

medical and climate change costs), the net present benefit would be $5,700 per seat. Driving behavior was estimated based on data collected by the Red Clay School District in Delaware. Without externalities (e.g., The typical cost of such a bus is $110,000, and the average fuel economy is approximately 6.35

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. Moreover, deregulation disincentivized the construction of new power plants.

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