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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

Blink Charging

The World Resources Institute , a sustainability advocacy group, says at the end of the second quarter in 2023, there were just under 6,000 committed electric school buses in the United States. This number includes buses that have been awarded, ordered, delivered, or are already in operation.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

While semi drivers can be a conservative group, those willing to become the first EV drivers in their fleets soon came to appreciate some side benefits of electric trucks. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 Mack Trucks, also owned by Volvo Group, updated its own electric tractor in March.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial. One the issues for PG&E is the impact of peak demand on the grid. During the question and answer session, Darbee said that utilities have to “ walk before we run ” with the smart grid.

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

Charged EVs

He also serves on the Board of Drive Electric Florida, and chairs the Florida Electric Power Coordinating Group, which represents most of the utilities in the state of Florida, and leads the Group’s subcommittee for electrification. The anti-EV crowd is fond of saying that EVs are going to “crash the grid.” Is that a problem?

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. February 15, 2010. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

We’re seeing a series of electrical architectures, with one group around smaller equipment at 48 volts, and a medium range—200 to 500 volts—in large equipment and medium-duty trucks. They could do three, four runs a day without a problem, without having to recharge. So those vehicles will probably go electric pretty quickly.