BorgWarner parnets with School District of the City of Pontiac

BorgWarner is partnering with the School District of the City of Pontiac to provide proprietary sequential charging with its direct current fast chargers, or DCFC, for the district’s fleet of 25 IC electric school buses. The infrastructure development is the first for BorgWarner that takes advantage of the Environmental Protection Agency’s, or EPA, Clean School Bus Program electrification funding. The School District of the City of Pontiac met the EPA requirements as a prioritized community and received $20,000 per power dispenser, totaling $500,000 in funding for electric vehicle supply equipment hardware and installation costs, as well as $9,375,000 for the electric buses themselves. Additional funding for infrastructure is being provided by DTE Energy’s eFleet Charger Rebate program. The deployment includes BorgWarner’s 60kW and 125kW DCFCs and solidifies the School District of the City of Pontiac as the first school district to leverage BorgWarner’s sequential charging technology, which allows up to five dispensers to charge from a single power conversion system, one at a time in sequence.