{"id":1198189,"date":"2023-10-31T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198189"},"modified":"2023-10-31T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:00:53","slug":"a-giant-battery-gives-this-new-school-bus-a-300-mile-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198189","title":{"rendered":"A giant battery gives this new school bus a 300-mile range"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GreenPower-Mega-BEAST-800x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow school bus with large battery packs next to it\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GreenPower-Mega-BEAST-.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"2000\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> GreenPower has given its class-D electric school bus a big battery bump. (credit: GreenPower)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the West Virginia-based GreenPower Motor Company debuted its latest electric vehicle. It&#8217;s the newest version of its class-D electric school bus, now fitted with a great big battery to give the big yellow bus the kind of range it needs for longer routes.<\/p>\n<p>GreenPower has been building electric buses for almost a decade now, and in 2019 it delivered the first BEAST buses (it stands for Battery Electric Automotive School Transportation) to a school district in California. More recently, GreenPower has been testing its buses in real world conditions, conducting a nine-month pilot program in West Virginia that split its time across 18 different school districts (for six weeks each), clocking up more than 32,000 miles (51,500 km) in the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that in ideal conditions, so not a real cold morning or anything like that, but the bus was getting between 1.4 and 1.5 [miles] to 1 percent state of charge. So that means that your range on 100 percent state of charge is in that 140 to 150 mile range,&#8221; explained Mark Nestle, vice president of business development and strategy at GreenPower.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980011#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980011&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A giant battery gives this new school bus a 300-mile range<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ GreenPower has given its class-D electric school bus a big battery bump. (credit: GreenPower) On Tuesday morning, the West Virginia-based GreenPower Motor Company debuted its latest electric vehicle. It&#8217;s the newest version of its class-D electric school bus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1198189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}