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From 5 to 10!
Kidding aside, I love this, but would love exponential growth more. School buses have mostly pre-defined routes and always stop at home base overnight. They're an ideal candidate.
Technically 5 to 10! would be factorial growth. If that trend continues, we would quickly run out of space on planet Earth to hold all those busses 😉
Oh you!
Oh wow, I haven’t seen one of these in the wild in like 10 years
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png
Well, 10! is probably enough busses to chauffeur every American to where they need to go, with a bit of coordination. So, I feel like they'd slow down at some point.
Unless this is like the trend where everyone needs to own a truck for a car, but now school buses. Then they might still go for 12!
School buses and delivery vehicles for sure.
I cringe every time the UPS truck comes through. The driver stops and shuts off the engine, makes their delivery, starts it back up, slams the accelerator, drives 100 ft., slams the brakes and then does it all over again. Day in and day out.
Also lawn equipment. I'm amazed that people still run these smoke spewing, oil leaking, horribly inefficient little devices all around their own property.
I’ve found the battery powered yard tools fantastic, but I live in an urban area with small yard. I don’t know whether you’d have as good an experience with a large yard or as a service
Idk, cases like these seem like a waste of lithium. Why not make it a trolleybus? You'd need much smaller batteries, they wouldn't care much about low temps and charge time would be irrelevant. Seems like such an underrated tech.