{"id":189521,"date":"2024-05-16T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:22:43","slug":"oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g","title":{"rendered":"Oakland is now first in the US to have a 100% electric school bus fleet \u2014 and it\u2019s V2G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.<\/p>\n<p>Modern student transportation platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridezum.com\/\">Zum<\/a> has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&amp;E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum\u2019s Oakland EV-ready facility. The fleet will be managed through Zum\u2019s AI-enabled technology platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOakland becoming the first in the nation to have a 100% electric school bus fleet is a huge win for the Oakland community and the nation as a whole,\u201d said Kim Raney, executive director of transportation at Oakland Unified School District. \u201cThe families of Oakland are disproportionately disadvantaged and affected by high rates of asthma and exposure to air pollution from diesel fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Modern student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&amp;E) supplied 2.7 megawatts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}