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Most applicants sought grant funding to acquire electric school buses, with propane coming in a distant second. No one indicated plans to purchase compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in this round. That’s not terribly surprising, I suppose, given how few school districts listed the inclusion of CNG buses in their fleets for our 2023 top district fleets survey.
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Applicants now have until Feb. 14 to submit for rebates for electric, propane, and compressed natural gas school buses.
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Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, shares questions and answers about the EPA's Clean School Bus Program rebate applications. Plus, let us know your choice for Administrator of the Year, sign up for School Bus Fleet ConneX (SBFX), and recommend songs for our school bus driver Spotify playlist!
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Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps top news from schoolbusfleet.com, including our 2024 School Bus Fleet Trailblazers, the EPA's Clean School Bus Program grant awards, and the hiring of Steve Whaley and Brad Beauchamp as alt-fuels managers for Blue Bird Corporation.
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The funding will help selectees purchase more than 2,700 clean school buses in 280 school districts serving more than seven million students across 37 states.
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Carter County Schools is launching a pilot program with 23 electric school buses funded by the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean School Bus Program.
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Expand your knowledge about federal funding for zero-emission school buses with these answers from the Environmental Protection Agency about the current round of rebate funding.
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Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps top news from schoolbusfleet.com, including the EPA Clean School Bus rebate program, E-Rate funding for wi-fi on school buses, new leadership at Student Transportation of America, and California's new electric school bus mandate.
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Downsville Central School District in New York received $395,000 from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, most of which will go towards purchasing the school bus, with the bus providers generating millions more for other districts.
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What’s different this time? Who qualifies as prioritized? What about repowers? We take a deeper dive into the latest Clean School Bus Program funding opportunity.
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