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Charge Ahead or Pump the Brakes? Exploring the Safety and Future of Electric School Buses
Back on the Busby Amanda HuggettJanuary 28, 2025

Electric vs. Diesel: Will Recent Fires Stall the EV Push? [Op/Ed]

Two recent school bus fires involving electric buses fuel the question: Where are we headed with electric adoption, and will diesel be the mainstay longer than we thought?

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GreenPower BEAST bus
Newsby News/Media ReleaseDecember 19, 2024

GreenPower Announces 11 BEAST All-Electric School Buses for Western U.S.

GreenPower to deliver 11 new BEAST school buses to Arizona, California, and Oregon and more orders come in.

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Electric School Bus
Newsby News/Media ReleaseDecember 17, 2024

WRI: 1,600+ More Electric School Buses Coming to U.S. Districts

Students will benefit from a cleaner ride to school thanks to federal funding under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program.

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Lynchburg City Schools administrators welcome new buses
Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 17, 2024

Virginia District Welcomes 25 Electric School Buses

Lynchburg City Schools’ new buses are replacing older diesel models and now make up 40% of the district’s fleet. They come thanks to funding from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program.

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Blue Bird electric step van.
Newsby News/Media ReleaseMay 20, 2024

Blue Bird Rolls Out New Electric Step Van

The showcased last-mile delivery step van and stripped chassis feature a 140kWh lithium-ion battery mounted within the frame rails, ensuring battery protection.

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Newsby Wes PlattAugust 16, 2023

Thomas Built Expects Little Impact to EV School Bus Production from Proterra Bankruptcy

The school bus manufacturer doesn’t anticipate any disruption to orders of its electric Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 11, 2023

Blue Bird Unveiling Next-Generation Electric School Bus

The new Type C Vision EV school bus launches thanks to the partnership between the school bus manufacturer and Accelera by Cummins.

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VideosFebruary 14, 2023

EV Education [VIDEO]

Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent headlines from schoolbusfleet.com - including the findings of pilot studies in three public school districts seeking to electrify their fleets, with help from the World Resources Institute and the Center for Transportation and the Environment. Plus, NSTA Executive Director Curt Macysyn joins to discuss the recent Midwinter Meeting and looks ahead to more events this year.

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Newsby Jack RobertsMay 10, 2022

On the Glide Path to Net Zero

What are the current promises and challenges of alternative fuels and clean-vehicle technologies for commercial fleets? An industry panel discusses the State of Sustainable Fleets at ACT Expo.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 14, 2022

ACT: Half of Class 4-8 Sales to be BEV by 2035

Battery-electric Class 4-8 vehicles already show positive total cost of ownership compared to conventional vehicles in three-quarters of the applications examined by ACT Research in an extensive analysis.

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