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Check out some of the latest moves where alternative fuels and school buses intersect, including new product announcements and bus deployments across the U.S.
Read More →The new World Resources Institute dashboard has data on electric school bus location and adoption, and it explores the distribution of fuel types and school bus ages in the entire U.S. school bus fleet, at the national and state level.
Read More →Batteries change throughout years of daily routes, but degradation doesn’t necessarily mean the end. Here’s what operators should know about performance, safety, and second life.
Read More →GreenPower Motor Co.’s Synapse 72 is approved by the California Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project for up to $110,000 for each one sold in the state.
Read More →L.D. No. 1894 would set a goal for the state Department of Education to develop rules on bids, specifications, charging stations, and a maintenance training program, and to complete the transition by 2040.
Read More →Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. deploys the electric bus as part of its efforts to improve community air quality and measure cost-savings benefits.
Read More →The effort includes $16.4 million in incentives for the expansion of electric bus usage amongst public transportation authorities, as well as $2.5 million for school bus operators to acquire cleaner forms of transportation with lower emissions.
Read More →Acquiring electric buses and the requisite infrastructure can have the unintended consequence of having more kids riding on older buses, generating higher overall fleet emissions, due to cutbacks on the basic turnover of the existing fleet.
Read More →Certification of the proprietary battery pack made at the company's battery manufacturing facility in Maribel, Quebec, is expected in the first quarter of 2023.
Read More →School districts in Ann Arbor, Gaylord, Kalamazoo, Oxford, Roseville, Three Rivers, and Zeeland will receive a total of $4.2 million to purchase 17 new electric school buses.
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