Only 2.4% of U.S. school districts are operating or have yet ordered their first ESB. Would busy school bus fleets and school boards and superintendents be wasting their time, this early on, by learning about V2G?
While children are famously safe from injury and death in school buses, their health is directly harmed by diesel exhaust.
I confess I have bought into lots of myths in my lifetime. For example, in 2008 as a transportation options geek I thought that replacing car trips with bike and bus trips was the most powerful way to reduce emissions (I was unaware of electric back then).
It’s easy to focus on electric school buses (ESBs). They’re big, photogenic, courteously quiet, and emit no bad smells. They command the floor space of the shows we go to like kings and queens.
The first round of the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program Funding is complete, and the second round is coming up soon in February/March 2023. This funding can exclude large inner-city schools based on current policy.
This article discusses Alliance’s recommendations to EPA for its next funding round, a report on how ESB’s are driving a reader’s states economy forward and more!
This article discusses the bipartisan ESB event, public commitments from school bus fleets in Oregon, deadlines for four states for electrifying school buses and more!
This article discusses the rural challenges with electric school bus implementation and the dynamics involved with getting the funding to electrify a school bus fleet.
Need some tips to help land your Electric School Bus Funding? We have three tips that should help you do just that!
Every school bus purchased lasts 15-20 years, so we’ve got to think long-term, not short-term. Both the private sector and the public sector are investing billions of dollars in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, because electricity is the cleanest, most efficient fuel, and electric is the future. We’re not seeing billions invested in propane infrastructure.
This newsletter gathers, curates and condenses information on ESB’s to save people’s time, and to make ESB’s more accessible and understandable.
This newsletter gathers, curates and condenses information on ESB’s to save people’s time, and to make ESB’s more accessible and understandable.
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