{"id":75960,"date":"2024-08-21T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75960"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:04:05","slug":"1144199_first-100-electric-us-school-bus-fleet-arrives-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75960","title":{"rendered":"First 100% electric US school bus fleet arrives in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The first school district in the U.S. to use all electric buses will be Oakland, California<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The buses, bidirectional chargers, and software management platform will be supplied by Zum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The buses will feed up to 2.1 GW of power back into the grid when not being used<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zum, a transportation-services company that provides electric buses and charging stations to school districts, claims to have launched the first <strong>100% electric school bus fleet<\/strong> in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that it is providing <strong>74 electric school buse<\/strong>s, bidirectional chargers, and a software management platform to the Oakland Unified School District of Oakland, California. The EVs will replace all internal-combustion buses in the district&#8217;s fleet, and will be able to <strong>feed up to 2.1 GW of power<\/strong> back into the grid when not transporting students, according to Zum.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1124870_big-yellow-school-buses-go-green-with-electric-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric school buses<\/a> are not a new idea, more than 90% of the nation&#8217;s nearly 500,000 school buses are still powered by fossil fuels, releasing <strong>8.4 million tons of greenhouse gases<\/strong> annually, according to Zum. Most of those buses have diesel engines, creating an additional health hazard to students regularly exposed to exhaust fumes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100939833_m\" title=\"Electric school buses with Zum bidirectional charging stations\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Electric school buses with Zum bidirectional charging stations\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_l.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_h.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_l.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_l.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/electric-school-buses-with-zum-bidirectional-charging-stations_100939833_s.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Electric school buses with Zum bidirectional charging stations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Use of electric school buses to support the grid, known as &#8220;vehicle-to-grid&#8221; (V2G) applications, requires extensive support from regulators and utilities, Zum noted. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric (PG&amp;E), whose service area the Oakland Unified School District is located in, also provided 2.7 MW of load to charge electric buses, the release added.<\/p>\n<p>Zum aims to put 10,000 school buses capable of bidirectional charging into service, a fleet that could <strong>supply 300 GWH of powe<\/strong>r to electricity grids annually, the company claims. It&#8217;s currently working with the San Francisco Unified and Los Angeles Unified School Districts\u2014which have bus fleets <strong>three and six times larger<\/strong> Oakland&#8217;s new electric fleet, respectively\u2014to electrify their school buses.<\/p>\n<p>Zum provides the vehicles but does not manufacture them. A handful of companies make electric school buses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1136296_lion-electric-school-bus-review-replacing-diesel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Lion Electric<\/a>, which in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1132192_lion-plans-to-make-electric-school-buses-and-hd-trucks-in-illinois-largest-such-plant-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced plans for an Illinois plant<\/a> to build them and other commercial vehicles. And in 2022 the EPA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137627_epa-directs-nearly-1b-for-electric-school-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced nearly $1 billion in grants<\/a> for school districts looking to purchase these buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first school district in the U.S. to use all electric buses will be Oakland, California The buses, bidirectional chargers, and software management platform will be supplied by Zum The buses will feed up to 2.1 GW of power back into the grid when not being used Zum, a transportation-services company that provides electric buses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}