The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would send nearly $1 billion to school districts to buy more than 2,300 electric school buses.
The Biden administration said that school districts in every state, as well as Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Washington, D.C., would get rebates that allow them to buy zero- or low-emission buses. In total, the funds will pay for close to 2,300 electric buses and about 100 buses that run on “low-carbon” fuels. Together, they are still a just a tiny portion of the almost half-a-million school buses that ply America’s roads.
“We are forever transforming school bus fleets,” said Regan in a call with reporters to announce the rebates. However, after an overwhelming number of requests from school districts for the electric option, more than 95 percent of this first wave of funding will go to electric buses, with relatively few dollars set aside for vehicles that run on liquid fuels.
EPA said 20 percent of the awards are going to rural or low-income communities or tribes, which got preferential scoring under the rules of the law. That includes the city of Compton, outside of Los Angeles, and Jackson, Miss., which saw its aging water system nearly collapse a few months ago. Dollars for bus makers Suppliers of electric buses are playing a prominent role in the EPA’s program and stand to lock in lots of business.
Superbus, children should love it.
Electric school buses will prove to be a very costly disaster.
Keep in mind that an electric school bus costs about $350,000. That's 2850 buses for the entire country. Please spend that money on teachers or anything else that will improve education.
Bullet-proof?
I'd rather the money be spent on Infrastructure, teacher salaries, RRR's, and STEM.