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.
he electric bus world is growing rapidly, with more purchase orders being placed for them weekly, massive federal funding for them being proposed, and Lion’s announcement of going public and building a huge e-bus manufacturing plant in Illinois with capacity to produce 20,000 electric school buses per year.
What do bus fleets need to succeed in the hard work of electrifying? Here are the first five of my ten suggestions, with the other five coming out next month.