Highland Electric Fleets

“Maybe a third to half of the folks that we engage with commercially are interested in talking about climate change and CO two, but more than half of them, if you start the conversation that way, the conversation's over.”

“Our depot in Bethesda, Maryland, you know, draws five megawatts of power when we're charging. It's the largest electrified depot in the country. Running 200 school buses and five megawatts is like five hospitals coming online overnight.”

“And we earn Very, we earn various amounts of money, but you know, in New England, as an example, we earn about a third of our revenue. Just from providing grid services.”

“So we will often get paid by the mile. We might get charged, we might charge a customer three dollars and 50 cents per mile, And they get all the equipment. They get all the services. If the charging station breaks and the chart, the bus isn't charged, we just…”

“When that's done at scale it's not only affordable, it's just cheaper for cities to run electrified fleets.”

“Our school bus fleets are on the road nine percent of the hours in a year, and the other 91% of the time they're sitting idle.”

“And about half of our projects today are backflowing power from our fleet of batteries to the grid when the grid needs the power the most.”

“We are buying switchgear, 18 months in advance for projects we don't even have under contract yet, because if we don't have switchgear, we're not We're not getting the infrastructure completed and we can't get up and running.”