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Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - including new details about the EPA Clean School Bus rebate program.
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The Public School Set-Aside for this year, managed by the California Air Resource Board (CARB), includes $122 million for electric school buses.
Read More →From operating alternative-fueled vehicles to installing pollution-control equipment on buses to reducing idling, pupil transportation operations are doing their part to provide a healthy and safe ride to and from school for students. Here, we provide details on these and other environmentally friendly practices at school districts and contractors throughout the country.
Read More →The all-electric buses by GreenPower Motor Company in the Thermalito Union Elementary School District mark the largest single order and delivery of the vehicles to date.
Read More →The project in Cabell, Kanawha, and Mercer counties continues the partnership between GreenPower Motor Company and the state government of West Virginia.
Read More →Adomani receives letters of intent from nine school districts in California for 25 GreenPower Type C and Type A all-electric buses.
Read More →For fleets struggling to find the funds to buy alt-fuel vehicles, there is money available. The key to getting it is to formulate a plan, build relationships and pay attention to the details.
Read More →VW settlement and other funds converge with increasing progress, availability, and demonstrated efficiency of alternative-fuel school buses, making now the time to seek out myriad grant opportunities.
Read More →In SBF’s June issue, a story covered grant opportunities for procuring alternative-fuel buses. Here, we share more information on potential VW funding impact and technological advances.
Read More →The Commissioners of the California Energy Commission approved a grant to National Strategies for $1.4 million for an all electric school bus demonstration program in California. Coupled with a previous grant, the total of $2.2 million will lead to the development of six buses that will be deployed in Torrance Unified School District, Kings Canyon Unified School District and Napa Valley Unified School District.
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