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October 22, 2026

5 Field Lessons to Improve Fleet EV Charging Reliability

Article, Interview

Most fleet electrification planning focuses on vehicles, funding, and power capacity. Far less attention goes to what happens after the chargers are energized, which is where reliability is actually won or lost. To capture what that looks like in practice, we sat down with Michael ...

September 23, 2026

Selecting the Right EV Charger for K-12 Schools

Article, Interview

A practical guide for transportation directors, CBOs, and school administrators navigating the transition to electric fleet charging. Why Schools Are Going Electric School districts across the country are making the shift to electric vehicles, and it’s not just buses. While electric school buses are the ...

September 3, 2026

Why You Shouldn’t Let the Bus Dealer Design Your Charging Infrastructure

Article

Now that your school district is working under new sustainability expectations, some changes need to be made. And it doesn’t stop at buying buses and chargers. Is your site ready for electric vehicle (EV) charging? Is it designed to get your buses charged and on ...

August 20, 2026

When your student paper criticizes your campus EV rollout

Article

UC Irvine’s plan to electrify its shuttle fleet had all the right elements. They had the funding. They had the backing of the trustees. And they enjoyed a reputation as a “green school.” But when they experienced deployment delays, the university faced public blowback from ...

August 17, 2026

Why an EV fleet is an easy win for campus sustainability

Article

Bottom line: your campus sustainability goals need to be met. Now comes the challenge of putting your budget where it’ll do the most good. And with funding coming from increasingly unreliable sources, due to declining enrollment and ever-shifting alumni donations, the stakes are higher than ...

August 7, 2026

I’ve Got an Orphaned EV Charger, Now What?

Article, Takeaways

There’s a specific kind of dread that sets in when a fleet manager calls a support line that used to answer and gets a disconnected number instead. The bus, the delivery van, the dealership charger out front, whatever it is, the vehicle is fine. The ...

August 3, 2026

Stop Buying Chargers. Start Buying Uptime.

Article

If you’re leading a transit fleet through electrification, you already know the vehicle side of this equation. You’ve evaluated range, duty cycles, battery warranties, maybe even wrestled with the 30C tax credit timeline. Charging infrastructure, by comparison, has probably felt like a secondary decision, a line ...

July 7, 2026

Why Top Transit Agencies Choose Camber

Article

Zero-emission mandates are moving faster than most transit agencies can build the infrastructure to support them. Boards are approving electric bus purchases while operations teams are still trying to figure out who keeps the chargers running two years from now. That gap is where most ...

June 26, 2026

The Fleet Operator’s Guide to Charging Schedules and Load Management

Article

Most fleet operators approach EV charging the same way they approached fueling: you run the vehicle, top it off when it gets low, and move on. It’s a simple mental model, and for diesel it works fine. For electric fleets, it’s one of the fastest ...

June 9, 2026

Why School Districts Are Stalling on EV Bus Projects — What’s Really Holding Them Back

Article

Electric school bus adoption is accelerating. Funding is flowing through programs like the EPA Clean School Bus initiative, mandates are tightening in states across the country, and the pressure on districts to modernize aging bus fleets has never been higher. And yet, project after project ...

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