A Colorado town’s new electric school bus fleet also doubles as a backup battery to help out during peak power demand.
Charging at night, using power to pick up, drop off, and then drop off children again, the buses would normally sit at their charging stations until daybreak calls them out again.
But in Cherry Creek School District, after the last backpack has gone bobbling down the street home, the buses return to their depot to become a supporting cast to the power grid thanks to a clever bi-directional charging system that allows them to use excess energy from their routes to power excess demand from homes…