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U.S. EPA Paves the Way for Clean Buses at Fairfax County Public Schools

April 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, investing in america, Joe Biden, justice40 initiative, mass transit / public transit, press releases, us environmental protection agency (epa), Virginia

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:24:38 +0000

Clean School Bus grant brings green future to school transportation. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz and U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (VA-11) celebrated one of EPA’s first Clean School Bus grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law being awarded to Fairfax County Public Schools during … [continued]

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Climate Pollution Reduction Grants for Equitable Transportation Electrification

January 21, 2024 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, ev subsidies, inflation reduction act of 2022., nevi, policy & politics, research, subsidies

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:02:43 +0000

The federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act are making once-in-a generation investments in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. … [continued]

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Check Out This Dataset of U.S. School Bus Depots

January 17, 2024 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, research

Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:21:56 +0000

This technical note, describes the methods used to create a dataset of school bus depot locations in the United States. … [continued]

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To Apply, Or Not? EPA’s New Clean School Bus Grant Program, Deciphered

June 2, 2023 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, EPA, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 16:35:17 +0000

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 schools and Tribes in year […]

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Blue Bird Opens New Production Facility For Electric School Bus Production

May 30, 2023 admin blue bird, clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, Georgia, green economy, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 21:35:55 +0000

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, building them into environmentally friendly […]

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$400 Million Grant Program to Fund Clean School Buses to Protect Children’s Health

April 28, 2023 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, Joe Biden, kamala harris, mass transit / public transit, michael regan, Mitch Landrieu, Schools, us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:40:44 +0000

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.

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Vehicle to Grid: The Least You Need to Know

April 26, 2023 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, grid, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 05:48:37 +0000

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 being nothing to us, to […]

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Upgraded School Buses Linked to Increased Student Attendance

April 14, 2023 admin Air pollution, clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, pollution, research, SCIENCE, university of michigan

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:15:15 +0000

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 enter buses through open windows. […]

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Want Electric School Buses? Been Waitlisted? Consider A Repower

March 26, 2023 admin clean transport, electric conversions, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, ev conversions, mass transit / public transit, Schools

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:27:27 +0000

By Alison Wiley and Tim Farquer

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8 Things To Know About Electric School Bus Repowers

March 1, 2023 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, ev conversions, mass transit / public transit, Schools

Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:09:17 +0000

Repowering existing school buses with a new electric drivetrain shows promise to provide school bus operators with a lower cost and more sustainable vehicle compared to buying a brand-new electric school bus. An electric repower — sometimes referred to as an electric conversion or retrofit — involves the removal of a vehicle’s internal combustion engine […]

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