Ideally, rezoning and infrastructure changes would reduce the need for school buses. We don’t have the time though, so this is a win. Hopefully production can ramp up and governments can create incentives for schools to buy these instead of dead dino powered buses.

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    School busses are one of the perfect fits for electric engines:

    Set schedule with down time to charge Specific route with known distances. Heavy and must drive up hills: which benefit from amazing torque generated by Electric engines. Large internal space for battery storage

    Just pray Muskrat doesn’t somehow win the bid. We’ll never see them

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      Elon would do something ridiculous like buy Lyft for 10 billion too much and require drivers to use Teslas. He would then get a cost+percentage transportation contract. He then gold plates the interior components after a few years so the cost is higher, therefore the percentage is bigger.

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      And as long as it can cover the longest route on one charge it wouldn’t need to cover that same distance every trip. You could pick the buses route based on battery % and have them alternate.