Heat, Highland, and Harvard: Game Changers?
Some things are game changers, some not so much.
July 11, 2024
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Some things are game changers, some not so much.
Come to our July 11 webinar “Using Electric Vehicles to Enhance Building Resilience”
How do we pull off the good, sweaty, risky projects, whether a TEDx talk or anything else?
Let’s forget, this month, about chasing funding. What if vehicle to grid (V2G) revenue meant that funding was finding you, instead?
“[M]any hundreds of hours were devoted to developing the project and writing about it, by many parties, with extensive review and revisions..winning happens via collaboration.”
“The bigger narrative that we’re all a part of is that transportation is moving to electric, moving from internal combustion engines (diesel, propane, gas and compressed natural gas) to electric propulsion”
Charging software manages both timing and power level of your charging. The software works with the chargers and reads the State of Charge on DC Chargers and can show you charging sessions for all chargers.
[E]specially valuable [in this new funding round]: non-prioritized districts now being included, because every district needs a chance to get started on ESBs. Also, the new wheelchair lift allowance, because students with disabilities are more vulnerable than average to toxic diesel emissions. Also, their buses do much more idling than general education buses as the wheelchair lift is deployed.
1,289 ESBs are on the road in 40 states and U.S. territories
4,696 additional ESBs are committed (funding has been landed)
The largest share of ESBs are in the most disadvantaged districts, which have the worst air quality – good!
See your proposal as valuable regardless of whether you win. ESBs are in all of our futures, so everything you learn, you will eventually use. In particular, building the utility part of the application with your utility is time very well invested.
EPA’s new funding round, though, goes deep instead of wide. I love this one too, because it’s designed to help whole fleets transition to electric, while easy, open-arms rebates are designed to get fleets started on ESBs. We need both.
I’d love for manufacturers to explain why it can cost 80-100 thousand less to buy a brand new diesel bus and repower it to become electric than it does to buy a new electric school bus in the first place. Why?
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