The iconic, nearly 100-year-old bus maker Blue Bird has been producing electric buses for a few years, and now it’s introducing a new and improved version. “Blue Bird buses carry the most precious cargo in the world – the majority of 25 million children twice a day – making us … [continued]
In general, I love the arms-wide-open, let’s-include-everyone approach to things, whether it’s a social gathering at my house, or a funding program for electric school buses (ESBs). Last year’s rebate program definitely had that spirit; the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean School Bus Program awarded almost one billion to 389 … [continued]
Blue Bird recently unveiled its new Electric Vehicle (EV) Build-up Center in Fort Valley, Georgia. The company repurposed an almost 40,000 sq.ft. facility to accommodate the growing need for electric, zero-emission school buses. At the EV Build-up Center, skilled technicians equip the vehicles with electric batteries and other necessary parts, … [continued]
Lightning eMotors has begun production of its next-generation Type A electric school bus that is built on the GM 4500 platform. In the 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Loveland, Colorado, the first orders for nearly 70 next-generation Type A electric school buses have started to move across the production floor. Over … [continued]
I was impressed pulling into the lot at Lightning eMotors. A hundred or more white vans from Ford and GM were arrayed in rows, waiting for their turn to be transformed into battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Lightning eMotors, covered by CleanTechnica in 2021 here, here, and here, specializes in creating … [continued]
Charging medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs) is more expensive than charging light-duty EVs due to several factors. First, medium- and heavy-duty EVs have larger battery sizes, which require more energy (measured in kilowatt-hours) to charge fully, resulting in higher electricity consumption and costs. These vehicles require high-power charging infrastructure … [continued]
Boston Public Schools (BPS) recently received their first batch of 20 Blue Bird electric school buses through the dealership Anderson Blue Bird Bus Sales of New England. The ground-breaking pilot initiative is the largest deployment of electric school buses in the Northeast, according to school administrators and local government authorities. … [continued]
The latest funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda follows nearly $1 billion for thousands of electric and low-emission school buses across the USA.
We’ve all seen new technologies get hyped up that later turned out to be duds. Irrelevant. If we’d ignored those things all along, we then felt smart: we didn’t waste our time on that nonsense. On the other hand, cell phones turned out to be a Superthing. They’ve gone from … [continued]
Replacing all of the oldest school buses in the nation could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually, according to a University of Michigan study. The suspected cause of these preventable absences is exposure to high levels of diesel exhaust fumes, which can leak into school bus cabins or … [continued]
