Yellow school bus icon Blue Bird is going electric—the company has nearly 1,000 electric school buses in operation today. The latest order comes from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which will add 20 electric buses to its all-Blue Bird fleet of 1,000 school buses. Miami-Dade County is the third-largest school district in the nation, serving more… Read more »
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British Columbia transit agency to buy 115 electric buses
BC Transit, which oversees public transit in the Canadian province of British Columbia (outside of Greater Vancouver) has announced plans to invest some $396 million to purchase up to 115 battery-electric buses and install 134 charging points. Of the total, the Canadian federal government is contributing around 170 million, the British Columbia provincial government is… Read more »
Nevada school district orders 15 GreenPower BEAST electric school buses
The Clark County School District in Nevada has ordered 15 GreenPower Type D BEAST electric school buses through vehicle dealership the RWC Group. CCSD is the fifth-largest school district in the country, and it owns and operates some 1,924 buses that transport 125,000 students daily. The district put its first GreenPower Type D BEAST school… Read more »
Iowa schools score $11 million in federal funding for electric school buses
In a first round of funding, the federal Clean School Bus Program has awarded 15 Iowa school districts $11.5 million to replace 32 existing school buses with electric models. The program provides $5 billion over the next five years to replace existing school buses with clean ones. “The Clean School Bus Program saves Iowa school… Read more »
GreenPower to manufacture electric school buses in West Virginia
GreenPower Motor Company (NASDAQ: GP) has received an order for 41 purpose-built Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST electric school buses totaling $15 million from the state of West Virginia. As part of the deal, GreenPower will begin manufacturing electric school buses in the state. “Since we first announced our intent to manufacture… Read more »
CALSTART launches California incentive program for Level 2 EV charging infrastructure
US clean transportation nonprofit consortium CALSTART has launched Communities in Charge, an incentive program funded by the California Energy Commission’s Clean Transportation Program and supported by GRID Alternatives and Tetra Tech. The program, designed to accelerate installation of light-duty Level 2 EV charging infrastructure across California, is open to schools, health care centers, local businesses… Read more »
Highland Electric Fleets to deploy 25 electric school buses in Baltimore
Highland Electric Fleets, a provider of school bus fleet electrification as a service, is partnering with Baltimore City Public Schools to deploy 20 Type C electric school buses from IC Bus and 5 Type A buses from Collins Bus. The project also includes the installation of 25 chargers. As an EPA Clean School Bus Program… Read more »
South Carolina to deploy 160 Thomas Built electric school buses
Electric school buses are not just for blue states. The South Carolina Department of Education will deploy 160 Thomas Built Buses electric school buses over the next year. The deployment will be funded entirely by the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program. Thomas Built Buses and its partner Proterra (which has a manufacturing facility in the… Read more »
WRI says converting school buses to electric drive can save money and reduce emissions
EV conversions are not generally thought of as a way to save money—in the passenger vehicle segment, they tend to be the province of affluent car-lovers. However, a recent report from the World Resources Institute tells us that repowering existing school buses with electric drivetrains could be a lower-cost and greener option compared to buying… Read more »
Electric school buses from Thomas Built Buses and Proterra log one million miles of operation
Thomas Built Buses and Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) unveiled their Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus back in 2018 , and there are now more than 300 units on the road. Now the companies have announced that the Jouleys have driven more than one million miles for school districts across North America. This may be just… Read more »