The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was much less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to.
Yet despite the availability of the technology all these years, fewer than one percent of the 489,000 school buses in the U.S. were electric at the end of 2023.
That means nearly all the buses that take many of the nation’s children to school still run on a fuel that sends contaminants into the air and is carcinogenic.
But that may be changing. The number of electric
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