Get the rundown on what's needed to submit an application for a piece of the $400M in funding for zero- and low-emission school buses through the latest opportunity offered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The E-Transit model represents the first Type A school bus on an electric power train from a full-line automaker.
They'll work with First Consulting to help school districts with planning and deployment of electric school buses.
Broward County Public Schools ordered 60 school buses - the largest EV school bus fleet purchase in Blue Bird's history.
Environmentalists welcome the latest round of funding from the Environmental Protection Agency via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But some politicians don't approve of the focus on electric vehicles.
The application deadline for this grant opportunity is on Aug. 22, 2023.
The pilot program with Blue Bird is a first step toward converting the entire 750-vehicle district bus fleet to electric by 2030.
The school bus manufacturer strives to make deployment of cleaner school buses more practical for its customers.
The latest round of the company's electric school bus pilot program moves to the West Virginia counties of Calhoun, Putnam, and Roane.
The first batteries made at the plant in Mirabel are expected to power the company's LionC and LionD school buses and Lion5 trucks.
The report from the online journal Nature Sustainability indicated 350,000 additional days of attendance per year for students in districts that received Environmental Protection Agency rebates between 2012 and 2017.
GreenPower Motor Company received the order for 41 all-electric Type A and Type D school buses from the state, where the company has agreed to build the new zero-emission vehicles.
The new Phase 3 plan for heavy-duty trucks, including school buses, would affect Model Year 2027 vehicles and is projected to avoid 1.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide through 2055.
The deadline to submit payment request forms for the first phase of the Clean School Bus Program is April 28. What do you need to know and have at hand so that you're fully prepared to get your rebate?
The majority of the deliveries were EV Star Cab and Chassis but also included EV Star Cargoes, EV Stars, EV 250 30-foot low-floor transit buses, and a Type D BEAST all-electric school bus.
The World Resources Institute sponsored the electric-battery school bus "street fair" to kick off the annual meeting and conference of the National School Transportation Association in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Manufacturers on display included IC Bus, MicroBird, Lion Electric, and BYD.
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