The school bus fleets serving the kids and communities suffering from the worst air quality, worst health care and lowest graduation rates will have the hardest time making use of the CSBP, if they even learn it’s available.
As Jackie Piero of Nuvve noted in one session, “there’s a money cannon getting ready to be shot out of Washington D.C. for electric school buses”. No kidding. I’m focusing on that funding in this issue, along with key players, and how equity and raising up disadvantaged communities should be central to how this funding is administered nationwide.
If you’re struggling to find drivers to operate your routes, how do you deal with a new, disruptive technology—even given the consensus that electric is the future, and actually the present moment for more fleets every month?
The tips below on electric buses will remain true whenever they become useful to you. We expect that federal funding will make electric school buses a solid, affordable option for many of the nation’s 13,500 school districts in the fairly near future.
I’ll be speaking briefly at the press conference on electric buses in Eugene/Springfield, Oregon, tomorrow July 29th, 10 a.m. Pacific. Environment Oregon will stream it here.
This short June issue gives news of three upcoming, in-person conferences involving electric buses, with registration links, plus a webinar on funding for e-buses that’s specific to Oregon.