Comment on Electric School Buses More Than Doubled In USA From March 2022 To June 2023
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From 5 to 10!
Kidding aside, I love this, but would love exponential growth more. School buses have mostly pre-defined routes and always stop at home base overnight. They’re an ideal candidate.
They’re an ideal candidate.
School buses and delivery vehicles for sure.
I cringe every time the UPS truck comes through. The driver stops and shuts off the engine, makes their delivery, starts it back up, slams the accelerator, drives 100 ft., slams the brakes and then does it all over again. Day in and day out.
Also lawn equipment. I’m amazed that people still run these smoke spewing, oil leaking, horribly inefficient little devices all around their own property.
I’ve found the battery powered yard tools fantastic, but I live in an urban area with small yard. I don’t know whether you’d have as good an experience with a large yard or as a service
I’ve tried out both a battery-powered weed wacker and a battery powered lawnmower and had to get rid of both. As much as I wanted them to succeed, they were both just seriously under-powered and needed multiple batteries to complete the job.
Probably will take another look at them when my current gas models need to be replaced maybe in 5+ years, hopefully they’ve gotten better.
Idk, cases like these seem like a waste of lithium. Why not make it a trolleybus? You’d need much smaller batteries, they wouldn’t care much about low temps and charge time would be irrelevant. Seems like such an underrated tech.
spongebue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Technically 5 to 10! would be factorial growth. If that trend continues, we would quickly run out of space on planet Earth to hold all those busses 😉
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh you!
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4am@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh wow, I haven’t seen one of these in the wild in like 10 years
thejml@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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