Full Title: Electric School Buses and the Grid: Unlocking the Power of School Transportation to Build Resilience and a Clean Energy Future
Author(s): Matthew Casale, James Horrox, Sarah Nick
Publisher(s): U.S. PIRG, Environment America, Frontier Group
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
School buses are the largest form of public transportation in the United States. Every day, 480,000 of them carry up to half of America’s children to school and back.
Currently, fewer than 1% of the nation’s school buses are powered by electricity, but with advances in electric bus technology, growing understanding of the benefits of electrification, and now a fresh influx of federal money through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, electric school buses are becoming an increasingly viable option for school districts. Electric school bus models are now available to meet every use case, and the number of districts that have committed to electric school bus adoption, or have drawn up plans to do so, is growing.