Hybrid Electric School Bus

Ewan Pritchard of Advanced Energy is the main proponent of the plug in hybrid school bus. School buses are inefficient and big air polluters. This bus is more efficient and costs virtually nothing to run in the electric mode. School buses are perfect as they can plug in at night for the morning school run, and plug in during the day if necessary. These buses built by International are standard school buses that have a diesel engine that can run on biodiesel, the have electric motors by from Enova, and are powered by lithium ion batteries. They are the clean green education machine.

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[XTWIGXX3]

hahaha

[Funnyjake011]

LED? 0:19 WTH, EXPENSIVE, oh nvm

[zkazanjian]

Worst interviewer EVER

[rocketlauncher2]

This guy talks too fucking slow

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

diesels are not air polluters, petrols are, in fact diesel fumes are clean, electric vehicles are not cheap, buying new batteries for the bus after 3 to 5 years or 500 to 1000 charges, electric motor and battery charger failure, less driving range between charge in the cold season, electric heater to heat the whole bloody bus, and what if you loses power overnight, and only have enough charge to cover 30 miles and you drive 60 miles on a half a day,i'll pass, i like the diesel buses myself

[zachray263]

A School Bus beated the Prius to the first commercial plug in hybrid on the market, imagine that

[86IrocZ28310CI]

yes it may be efficient but what about the cold weather??? Where I work our buses dont run in negative degree weather... how are these gonna keep a bus warm?? and how well are they gonna operrate at that cold weather?

[ThomasBus8516]

Hybrid buses are a good thing to develop solutions to free ourselves from oil. But I must take issue with your claim that buses are inefficient and big air polluters. Individually, they do get less fuel mileage than a car and perhaps emit a little more pollution, but when you look at the big picture, they each are potentially taking 90 cars off the road, depending on the capacity or your buses and your town's family sizes.