Pretty easy for something to “double” as a giant battery when it has a giant battery in it
Not to mention the amount of carnage and pollution created to build these monstrosities.
Is no one aware of the amount of populations being killed due to the extraction of metals requires to build these batteries?
Biodiesel would be a FAR GREENER alternative to this nonsense.
Though it’s a car cry from perfect grid storage, as the vehicle isn’t connected during the morning and most of the evening spikes, and ideally needs to recharge overnight to be ready for the morning route so it can’t discharge at the time when grid storage is needed most in a place with plentiful solar.
They also double as busses.
Have they thought this through? To install batteries that are much heavier than what the bus trip requires makes the bus less efficient. Sure they need to store energy for to smooth out peak grid consumption but probably better to do that with batteries that are not mobile – if they must use batteries. Another way to store energy: pump water to the top of a mountain. To get the energy back open a dam that turns a hydro turbine.
from the article:
Pollution from buses and other vehicles contributes to chronic asthma among students, which leads to chronic absenteeism.
Seems like a stretch.
