The Exchanges

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q new because it is a different product line. There are different considerations, whether it's being on the water or having to be in the air. Or having additional redundancy because you're in the air. And so I'll just kind of leave this open to the group. What have you had to consider and reinvent versus what has again, been able to be, you know, borrowed from the existing automotive industry?

A The, all the technology development around making the electrified powertrain super efficient, right? This is your electric motor connected to, you know, your batteries and All the high voltage systems that need to exist in the balance to make it work. And, you know, Mitch talked about reliability. Couldn't agree more. Electric is awesome because it is so reliable. That is an area that we probably all benefit from is just years and years and years of making it a super durable system. I would say for us, we, we had to create a ton of interoperability, um, systems that we didn't expect we'd have to build. And what I mean by that is Not all charging stations work with all vehicle types. You know, there's firmware, there's other, other, you know, battery management software within your vehicle, and then there's the utility. And if you think about creating a reliable ecosystem, all of us, you know, Mitch said power hungry. They're really power hungry, right? Our, our, 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 so you need really advanced software that, that is managed in a way that we've never had to do in the past here in the States anyways. And that's interoperability between your charge…

AI assessment note: “we had to create a ton of interoperability, um, systems that we didn't expect”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q new because it is a different product line. There are different considerations, whether it's being on the water or having to be in the air. Or having additional redundancy because you're in the air. And so I'll just kind of leave this open to the group. What have you had to consider and reinvent versus what has again, been able to be, you know, borrowed from the existing automotive industry?

A The, all the technology development around making the electrified powertrain super efficient, right? This is your electric motor connected to, you know, your batteries and All the high voltage systems that need to exist in the balance to make it work. And, you know, Mitch talked about reliability. Couldn't agree more. Electric is awesome because it is so reliable. That is an area that we probably all benefit from is just years and years and years of making it a super durable system. I would say for us, we, we had to create a ton of interoperability, um, systems that we didn't expect we'd have to build. And what I mean by that is Not all charging stations work with all vehicle types. You know, there's firmware, there's other, other, you know, battery management software within your vehicle, and then there's the utility. And if you think about creating a reliable ecosystem, all of us, you know, Mitch said power hungry. They're really power hungry, right? Our, our, 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 so you need really advanced software that, that is managed in a way that we've never had to do in the past here in the States anyways. And that's interoperability between your charge…

AI assessment note: “we had to create a ton of interoperability, um, systems that we didn't expect”

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