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Electric School Buses and Midi Buses 2019-2039

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Electric School Buses and Midi Buses: Big Business Coming
We all know China has 400,000 large battery buses and they are spreading across the world thanks to strong subsidies but there is another big opportunity coming with smaller buses. Uniquely, the new IDTechEx report, "Electric School Buses and Midi Buses 2019-2039" appraises this. There are over 1.5 million school buses, mostly midi buses but with larger ones favorite in North America. Federal support for electrification is poor or non-existent so adoption of electric versions has had to await public outcry about the entirely avoidable poisoning of children with engine fumes and cost-effectiveness even parity of up front price between the clean and dirty options. This is imminent.
 
The report reveals how the school electric bus market extends from Dubai to New Zealand and it will jump to $6.9 billion in 2029 with rapid increase thereafter. The market for small and midi buses for other purposes will be a multiple of that and include robot shuttles rapidly becoming its biggest part. By the end of the decade, some robot shuttles may be acting as school bus, urban bus and taxi all in one day. There will be much innovation and the report has an image of what the planned Tesla midi bus may look like, leveraging existing Tesla technologies. Indeed, Tesla has just bought the world's largest supercapacitor manufacturer and the report looks at the potential for supercapacitors to replace batteries in such buses.
 
School bus diesel exposures to children pose as much as 23 to 46 times the cancer risk considered significant under US federal law. There is no known safe level of exposure to diesel or gasoline exhaust for children. Their weak, developing immune systems get a huge belt when the bus doors open. In the USA alone, the captive ridership is around 26 million twice daily injured by this extreme case of cruelty to children. Indeed, US school buses emit 3,000 tons of cancer-causing soot and 95,000 tons of smog-causing compounds every year. Each year, one school bus in Texas emits the equivalent of 114 cars according to the EPA.
 
The Executive Summary and Conclusions of the report pulls all this together in easily understood infographics, forecasts for electric school buses in China, USA, Canada and Other Regions and also buses in general, robot shuttles and fuel cell buses. A technology timeline covers 2019-2040.
 
Chapter 2 Introduction covers school bus economics, regulations and market forces. That includes fewer people taking driving licenses, shortages of bus drivers and other reasons for robot buses eventually. Chapter 3 details the technology, criticising the poor start with hybrid electric buses and heavy old chassis and clarifying technologies that will succeed, benchmarking other more advanced sectors through to "massless energy" from bodywork making and storing electricity. Here are the battery and supercapacitor advances coming up to 2030, the trend to less battery, new supercapacitor buses, options for charging on-the-move and more given by year ahead. Learn how vehicle-to-grid and solar bodywork are making school buses affordable and how robot buses will function.
 
Chapter 4 profiles relevant bus manufacturers by type and their activity prioritising school and midi buses. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 detail the latest situation, learnings and issues with school buses in North America, China and Other Regions respectively.
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1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1.Focus of this report
1.2.Why adopt buses?
1.3.Buses worldwide: breakdown of types 2025
1.4.Types of bus
1.5.Disruptive redesign is coming: big market emerging
1.6.Cruelty to children
1.7.Emissions cause much more injury than previously realised
1.8.Rationale and examples of electric school buses
1.9.Driverless school buses
1.9.1.TEAGUE
1.9.2.Potential for Tesla high density robot bus
1.10.Technology timeline for school buses
1.11.Market forecasts
1.11.1.Electric bus market forecast 2019-2029 number (thousand)
1.11.2.Electric bus market forecast 2019-2029 unit price $k
1.11.3.Electric bus market forecast 2019-2029 $ billion market value
2.INTRODUCTION
2.1.On-road transport in cities
2.2.Technology to the rescue
2.2.1.Electrification, autonomy, sharing
2.2.2.Synergy and benefits of electric and robotic school buses
2.3.Worldwide regulatory emissions roadmap for heavy duty diesel
2.4.Electric school bus economics
2.5.Peak car may increase school bus usage
2.6.Drivers of bus electrification
3.ELECTRIC BUS TECHNOLOGY
3.1.Overview
3.2.Powertrain options
3.3.Body and chassis
3.3.1.Overview
3.3.2.ADOMANI
3.3.3.Lightweighting buses by monocoque construction: Anhui China
3.4.Pure electric vehicle viability vs energy storage kWh in bus/truck 2010-2040
3.5.Battery parameters in pure electric buses and trucks 2019
3.6.China - extra $1 billion battery market for school buses?
3.7.Choosing energy storage: lithium-ion batteries dominate
3.8.Energy density improvement of energy storage systems by storage type 2019-2029
3.9.Battery replacement: supercapacitor viability vs capacity kWh in bus/truck 2010-2040
3.9.1.BlueSG announce shuttle bus with super capacitors and flash-charging
3.10.Less battery: supercapacitor, fuel cell combinations
3.11.Less battery: dynamically charged then energy independent electric buses and trucks
3.12.Vehicle to Grid V2G making electric school buses affordable
3.12.1.V2G assessment for buses
3.12.2.V2G saving projections by ELPC
3.12.3.Blue Bird V2G award
3.12.4.Fermata V2G investment
3.13.Robot shuttles
3.14.Towards energy independence: increasing bus range
4.BUS MANUFACTURERS: HYBRID, PURE ELECTRIC, SCHOOL, ELECTRIC SCHOOL
4.1.Hybrid bus manufacturers worldwide
4.2.Pure electric bus manufacturers worldwide
4.3.School bus manufacturers in North America
4.3.1.Blue Bird
4.3.2.Collins Bus (REV Group)
4.3.3.IC Bus (Navistar)
4.3.4.Green Power Motor
4.3.5.Lion Electric
4.3.6.Micro Bird Girardin
4.3.7.Starcraft
4.3.8.Trans Tech
4.4.School bus manufacturers in China
5.SCHOOL BUS OPERATION IN NORTH AMERICA
5.1.Traditional school buses: big oil user, injuring children, fires
5.2.Push for electric in some regions
5.3.Cost issues
5.4.US school bus examples
5.5.US and Canada school bus sales 2018
5.6.USA: world's largest licensed school bus fleet
5.7.Statistics by region
5.8.Autonomy needed: driver shortages and cost escalation
5.9.Pure electric powertrain benefits in USA
5.10.Illinois viewpoint: Environmental Law and Policy Center
5.11.Example: Electric School Bus Opportunities In ComEd's Service Territory
5.12.USA utilities engaging In electric school bus pilot programs in 2019
5.13.School bus purchasers interested in electric
5.14.Canada
5.14.1.Requirements and sources
5.15.Mexico
6.SCHOOL BUS OPERATION IN CHINA
6.1.China: big potential, not much happening yet
6.2.School buses: USA and China compared
6.3.Reality check
6.4.Hong Kong
7.SCHOOL BUS OPERATION IN OTHER REGIONS
7.1.Australia
7.2.Emirates
7.3.Germany
7.4.India
7.5.Italy
7.6.Japan
7.7.New Zealand
7.8.Poland
7.9.Russia
7.10.Singapore
7.11.Tibet
7.12.Ukraine
7.13.United Kingdom
 

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The school electric bus market extends from Dubai to New Zealand and it will jump to $6.9bn in 2029

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