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Upstate New York school districts receive $50 million in funding for electric school buses
cnycentral.com ^ | October 26, 2022 | JeanneTyler Moodee Lockman

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: automotive; buses; education; ev; globalwarminghoax; newyork
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1 posted on 10/27/2022 5:24:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge; Steely Tom

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.


2 posted on 10/27/2022 5:29:56 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: lowbridge
I can see it now -

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"Watch, Jimmy. See what can make happen with this piece of aluminum foil and an alligator clip...."

3 posted on 10/27/2022 5:31:16 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: lowbridge

“Get the (electric) school bus!”


4 posted on 10/27/2022 5:32:19 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: metmom

Winter is gonna be fun for these buses.

Tow truck operators are gonna make a fortune towing away stranded buses.


5 posted on 10/27/2022 5:33:19 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: metmom

They had problems with battery transit buses here in Indianapolis in the winter time. Range falls off with cold weather.

https://www.wrtv.com/news/call-6-investigators/indygo-electric-buses-having-battery-problems-cant-handle-the-cold


6 posted on 10/27/2022 5:34:44 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: cgbg

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.


7 posted on 10/27/2022 5:36:41 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Will it be a yellow bus? Just asking for Heels Up Harris.


8 posted on 10/27/2022 5:37:03 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: nascarnation

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.

;-)


9 posted on 10/27/2022 5:38:23 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like a recipe for barbecued school children.


10 posted on 10/27/2022 5:38:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: cgbg

“It’s Electric!”


11 posted on 10/27/2022 5:39:27 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: nascarnation

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.


12 posted on 10/27/2022 5:41:12 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: metmom

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.


13 posted on 10/27/2022 5:43:21 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: lowbridge

Yellow school buses? I love those yellow school buses. I have good memories of yellow school buses.


14 posted on 10/27/2022 5:44:09 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: lowbridge

A few yrs ago our local UPS trucks were electric...No more.


15 posted on 10/27/2022 5:45:26 PM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like a recipe for barbecued school children.

With a lithium fire, I don't think they will be properly cooked.

16 posted on 10/27/2022 5:46:18 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: metmom
How much of that do you think will be skimmed off the top as we know undoubtedly it will.
17 posted on 10/27/2022 5:46:57 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: nascarnation

I always believed in “if it works don’t try to fix it.” These commie libs have trashed the America many men died for.


18 posted on 10/27/2022 5:47:20 PM PDT by Lumper20 (nd )
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To: lowbridge

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?


19 posted on 10/27/2022 5:50:02 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: nascarnation
The one advantage with school buses is they can recharge them during the day

Until one of them catches fire in the bus garage and destroys the school’s whole school bus fleet.

20 posted on 10/27/2022 5:52:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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