Transitioning school bus fleets from diesel to electric models carries significant health, environmental, and cost benefits. Persistent challenges have to date impeded electric school bus adoption, but solutions are at hand.
Substantial federal grant funding, an increasing volume of policy mandates, and mounting pressure from parents, teachers, students, and communities for schools to decarbonize underpin the market. Through the lens of an investor, school buses are prime candidates for electrification: bus routes are predictable and almost always fall within the range offered by EVs available today, most