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by olau 458 days ago
If you charge the buses over night, then you don't need 100 kW. I think the battery sizes are something like 100-300 kWh. So with 9 hours of charging, you need only perhaps 30 kW at the most.

Anecdotally, the town I live in invested in probably around 100 buses. They did build a new depot with charging stations.

Batteries are coming down in price, so if getting a good grid connection is a problem, you can put in a buffering battery.

The comfort of the BEV buses is much better than the old diesel buses, by the way, and they are much less noisy in the city.

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Ok so you still need 3MW or with a buffering battery as big as your fleet you could spend half the day charging the batteries. So you still need what, 1.5MW? Or is it half that. It is still a grid connection that is larger than you could easily find in an old inner city bus depot, I would have thought?