Renewable propane fuels this mobile vehicle charging station.
year committed to purchasing 38 new school buses that will run on propane autogas to add to an alternative-fueled fleet that includes nine EVs. “They can do maybe five or 10
percent of their routes with EV. With propane, they can go above 400 miles between fueling and do field trips and everything diesel did for them,” said Whaley. Whaley shared propane also plays a
key role in EV charging infrastructure. One of the biggest hurdles after the capital expense of getting the EV bus
stopgap with people doing some gasoline, but I call that a gateway drug to propane because as soon as some- body switches from diesel to gasoline, they discover they can buy propane for less than the price of gasoline and get 400 miles out of it.” Case in point: the School District of Philadelphia this
is getting the equipment on site to charge it, he noted. “We can do that off the grid with a standalone system,” he explained. “There are three really clean sources – wind, which doesn’t go all of the time; sun which isn’t out all of the time, and propane, which can carry the load without interruption.” ●
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