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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

Blink Charging

What makes school bus fumes especially dangerous is that they often end up making their way into the vehicle cabins , schoolyards and playgrounds, and residential neighborhoods. One upcoming technology, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G or VTG), may allow electric bus fleets to send electricity back to the utility grid during peak energy events.

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Road Test: 2023 Kia Niro Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

The Niro isn’t plugged in to recharge the battery but does have a very efficient regenerative charging system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy, when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

Charged EVs

If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. And in fact, we’ve had good conversations with bp pulse and with Shell Recharge in our service territory. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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Solar Mobile EV Charging Station along Highway can really help!

Setec Powerr

Most EVs are hampered from driving long distances by the gap between charging stations and the time it takes to recharge their batteries, which have limited range. You have to drive through strange neighborhoods and try to locate chargers in vast parking lots where GPS is known to drop out of service.

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Road Trip: 2021 Volkswagen ID4

Clean Fleet Report

Driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour freeway traffic or coasting down hills will recharge the battery. With the ID4 rated at a 250-mile driving range, recharging stops were planned to happen with 40-50-percent battery remaining. The turning radius was impressive, making for easy U-turns in your neighborhood.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

And when you hear the questions folks ask at events like these you instantly realize just how little people know and understand about what’s happening to our climate and their world. We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. Most have no idea.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. A couple of drawbacks to consider might be the capitalization costs of building these stations and the batteries that they would have to have in stock.