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Comment Re:VW expanding lecce van factory (Score 1) 86

Realistically for that school district the construction costs for charging infrastructure would not have been as bad as for say, private entities, the school district as a political subdivision of the state had self-inspection and self-permitting powers on its own properties, and that process was incredibly streamlined. They could have realistically had the grounds underground-located by the utilities using their own records ("Blue stake"), and then had some underground-detection done to confirm specific alignments didn't have unexpected surprises, then bringing in the saw-cutting tools and mini-excavators to make trenches over toward the main electrical service building and transformer room.

The site was shared with a transportation site with vehicle maintenance facilities, so electrical power to the site would probably be adequate for charging vehicles on a schedule. That doesn't mean every vehicle would be capable of being charged from near-zero to 100% on a 50A service, but it might well be possible to provide 20A to vehicles below 50% without risking overload.

But if the vehicles themselves are far too expensive to buy to begin with then they're simply not going to buy them. They even ran their own fuel service, they had their own diesel, gasoline, and even propane fueling stations, so it wasn't like they weren't accustomed to having and maintaining that infrastructure, but their vehicle choices were very closely tied with purchase price.

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