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The surprising powerhouse behind rapid V2X growth: electric school buses

by zfg on 3/28/25, 9:16 AM with 48 comments

• by llm_nerd on 3/31/25, 12:26 PM

  Having never heard the term V2X before, a quick search brought me to a wiki page that describes it as the wireless proposals to allow for vehicle-to-'everything' communications that would allow for higher safety and efficiency.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything

  https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/ultimate-guides/software-defin...

  To make it worse there is also a military supplier company named V2X having nothing to do with any of this.

  Seems like a very poorly defined acronym.

• by dybber on 3/31/25, 9:01 AM

  > plenty of downtime

  I don’t understand why the US still has dedicated school buses that isn’t used for anything else during the day.

• by etimberg on 3/31/25, 1:13 PM

  Maybe this will work on the weekends, but in general V2X (or the older V2G ideas) are just a dumb concept. No driver wants to go out to their car and find that it has no charge because they didn't plan their trip ahead of time. The value of a vehicle is that you can use it whenever it's needed