{"id":2164,"date":"2021-03-04T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2021-03-04T23:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:34:06","slug":"record-breaking-ev-bus-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/record-breaking-ev-bus-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Breaking EV Bus Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools Board of Education has ordered 326 new EV buses. The largest single order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Funding was a package deal with the Maryland Energy Administration  awarding  an $817,000 grant to help offset the costs of electrification. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important?The school is looking to offset the costs, as the buses will be used as vehicle-to-grid energy storage when not ferrying children around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2021\/02\/maryland-school-district-places-largest-ever-order-for-electric-buses\/\">Ars Technica | Maryland school district places largest-ever order for electric buses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools Board of Education has ordered 326 new EV buses. The largest single order. Why is this important? Funding was a package deal with the Maryland Energy Administration awarding an $817,000 grant to help offset the costs of electrification. \u00a0 How will this be important?The school is looking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}