911_reddit@alien.topB to GadgetsEnglish · 10 months agoMega Beast - This new electric school bus has a 300-mile range, designed for rural school districtselectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareWay2trivial@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoconsidering the undercarriage design- do you think they find a way to just slide the batteries in and push out depleted ones. Make a deal with a family that lives 150 miles out - (This is rural America) to set up an automated battery swap station. Bus pulls up into a bay- batteries get pushed in and slide the dead ones out, and the next day reverse.
minus-squarerossmosh85@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoBatteries are heavy has fuck. 60kwh batteries weigh over 1000lbs. Swapping them in and out is quite complicated on top of that.
considering the undercarriage design- do you think they find a way to just slide the batteries in and push out depleted ones.
Make a deal with a family that lives 150 miles out - (This is rural America) to set up an automated battery swap station.
Bus pulls up into a bay- batteries get pushed in and slide the dead ones out, and the next day reverse.
Batteries are heavy has fuck. 60kwh batteries weigh over 1000lbs.
Swapping them in and out is quite complicated on top of that.