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Alaska's First Electric School Bus Works in Extreme Low Temperature | Can New Tax Credit Bill Help Create More Advanced EVs?

Can the new "Build Back Better" bill help create more advanced EVs? Alaska recently received its first electric school buses back in 2020. This EV innovation is quite useful since it is confirmed to perform even at extremely low temperatures.
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Massachusetts electric school bus delivered power back to grid for 50+ hours over the summer; V2G

An electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. This is the first time an electric school bus has been leveraged as an energy resource by the regional utility...
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Yes, Electric Big Rigs Are Coming—and We Drive Four of Them

Yes, Electric Big Rigs Are Coming—and We Drive Four of Them Autoweek 3 hrs ago Mark Vaughn © Freightliner From semis to box trucks, step vans to school buses, Freightliner has a test fleet of 40 rigs, with availability in 2022. Electric semi-trucks are coming to roads near you—eventually. They are clean, green, and very expensive machines, though they will pay off after several years As with every class of EV rolling out or in development, one of the biggest obstacles ...
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Why we should electrify the US school bus fleet

This originally was published on WRI. The past year has been all about protecting ourselves and our children from a serious respiratory illness: COVID-19. But as schools reopen and children return to in-person classrooms, many kids will spend part of every day in a toxic environment that causes harm to young lungs and minds: diesel-powered school buses. Nearly all of the approximately 480,000 iconic big yellow buses in the United States are exclusively fueled by diesel and produce diesel exhau...
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