Posted on 10/27/2022 5:24:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
Some school districts in Upstate New York, including two in Onondaga County, are expected to receive over $50 million in federal funding through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Clean School Bus Program, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday.
The funding will be used to purchase over 130 new electric school buses as part of a program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
“Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Law, as the wheels of the new, electric school buses go round and round, carbon emissions and pollution is going to keep going down and down,” said Senator Schumer. “Over $50 million will supercharge our efforts to fight climate change and power over 130 brand new electric buses to keep our air clean, kids safe and our Upstate New York healthy. I am proud to deliver this tremendous environmental justice investment that will put our students on the road to a brighter future and a cleaner commute.
”The Fabius-Pompey Central School District will receive a total of $1,975,000 to purchase five electric school buses, and the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District will receive $395,000 to purchase one bus.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act included $5 billion over five years for the replacement of existing school buses with low and zero-emission school buses. This is the first round of grants from that program.
The first round of grant funding will add nearly 2,500 electric buses to the nation’s fleet.
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Those are out in the boonies.
IIRC, they are large districts. They are very hilly.
This should be interesting in the middle of a lake effect event.
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"Watch, Jimmy. See what can make happen with this piece of aluminum foil and an alligator clip...."
“Get the (electric) school bus!”
Winter is gonna be fun for these buses.
Tow truck operators are gonna make a fortune towing away stranded buses.
They had problems with battery transit buses here in Indianapolis in the winter time. Range falls off with cold weather.
The one advantage with school buses is they can recharge them during the day. The transit buses had to run all day and came up short.
Will it be a yellow bus? Just asking for Heels Up Harris.
Electric vehicle manufacturers traditionally don’t even test the range of these vehicles below twenty degrees—guess they are just gonna have to learn the hard way.
;-)
Sounds like a recipe for barbecued school children.
“It’s Electric!”
The other problem is that these are not a good fit for rural district.
School buses around here can easily have a one way route of over one hundred miles—the kids are spread all over the place.
It is also very cold in upstate NY during the winter. Heat will be needed in the busses to keep the chillins from getting frostbite. Batteries drop capacity considerably in the cold. So even more opportunities for EV failure. OTO if the batteries catch on fire it would help keep the kids warm.
But the primary mission of the EV stuff is fulfilled- taxpayer money is transferred to special interest groups who can then kickback ten percent to the big guy and other corrupt Democrats.
Yellow school buses? I love those yellow school buses. I have good memories of yellow school buses.
A few yrs ago our local UPS trucks were electric...No more.
With a lithium fire, I don't think they will be properly cooked.
I always believed in “if it works don’t try to fix it.” These commie libs have trashed the America many men died for.
LOL!
Kids are always happy to miss a day or several of school.
Will the state be punished for days of “Skipping” school due to EV bus failures?
Until one of them catches fire in the bus garage and destroys the school’s whole school bus fleet.
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