Thomas Built and IC Bus have revealed new all-electric school buses that will be picking up kids in a couple of years.
Daimler Trucks-owned Thomas Built’s model is the cleverly-named Jouley, which is a conversion of its conventional Saf-T-Liner C2 that features a 160 kilowatt-hour battery that takes pack 8 hours to charge and is good for a range of 100 miles, enough to cover many daily urban and suburban routes. Daimler Trucks has been investing heavily in electrification and recently took the wraps off of a battery-powered delivery truck under its Fuso brand called the eCanter, along with an all-electric semi-truck concept.
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6 comments:
I am probably going to get replies from lots of people smarter than I am. Just asking why electric buses that require 8 hr recharging, using electricity from a power plant using gas, coal, or nuclear power. What's the point?
Not to mention the special parts were shipped from china using planes, ships and automobiles. However is suppose to make you feel good, it's like voting democrat.
Not to mention the power loss between the power plant and the actual amount of power stored to the batteries. It would probably burn 200 miles of fuel at the plant to go those ONE hundred miles...
8 hours of charge for 100 miles. Well?
If these are paired with a solar charging array, would that make more sense?
Does these figures include all the idling and stopping and starting which would use more of the electric power? Who will be on stand by when a bus is half way through their route and they loose power? Who will pay for the wreckers needed?
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