Where is Progress Taking Us with Respect to Batteries and Public Transit?

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In our last issue of this newsletter, your Ride On writers discussed different types of electric batteries. Today, we go further on this topic with considerations of other types of batteries — such as hydrogen fuel cells — while also discussing why fully fossil fuel-consuming buses are being traded for buses that use batteries to varying ways and degrees. We then advance this discussion to look at the types of batteries buses use, how they are used, and what advances have been considered when it comes to optimizing our employment of batteries and the resources we have within the public transit system.