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Posted on 04/24/2025 5:31:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road as federal cuts and freezes paused efforts in other states to replace aging diesel-fueled fleets that are more polluting.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Wednesday that 1,000 zero-emission school buses and related charging infrastructure will be provided to over 130 rural, low-income and disadvantaged school districts. The state grants add about 500 more charging stations for school buses to more than 200 stations already in operation in districts.
The expansion contrasts efforts in other states that were hampered by the uncertainty over federal funds. For months, over 500 districts nationwide waited on around $1 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency to cover more than 3,400 electric buses, sparking panic and confusion. Some districts delayed or canceled their purchases. The EPA said in an email Wednesday that this month the rebate money was being distributed to awardees who have passed quality assurance.
California has the largest fleet of electric school buses in the country after pumping more than $1.3 billion into such efforts and funding more than 2,300 of the buses. Of those, 1,100 are already in use and some districts are 100% electric.
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That’s $500K per skewl bus.
is anybody shocked?
Low Voltage Brown Outs in 10, 9, 8.....
Actually, school busses in high density populated areas are one of the few applications of EVs that sometimes make sense. Stop and Go driving can allow regenerative braking to recover the energy lost in accelerating the bus from the previous stop. The busses can also be recharged during the mid-day period when they are idle. There are realities that minimize this advantage, though. A major one is that the recharge rate of present-day batteries is too low to be able to recover all of the energy delivered from stopping. Recharging all of the busses simultaneously can require massive power lines into the charging stations. Most important is heating and even cooling the busses while occupied. This can make the time spend during the ride dangerous, particularly in isolated rural areas. Having grown up in northern Minnesota, there’s no way I would allow a child to ride in an electrically heated school bus when the temperature outside is -40 degrees.
They aren't so good on the environment when they're on fire! Lots of emissions!!!
Just ask anyone who owned an EV in LA that got caught in the fires.
“California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses”
Gee, it’s a good thing Califubar has a positive reading on its state wide debt or people might think this is just another stupid policy enacted by the Democratic party who voters continue to keep in power.
Will they allow Tesla to compete for providing the buses?
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