“Electric school buses can be a way to minimize air pollution that’s already way higher than it should be in certain communities.”
While politicians debated and whittled down the infrastructure bill, money for clean school buses represented one point of agreement that progressives, establishment Democrats, and conservatives could all support.
that transport more than 1.3 million students every day—about 25 percent of all students enrolled in the state’s public schools. “They aren’t really clean in the way that they’re being marketed,” said Mac Dressman, a transportation associate at the, a national network of state-based health and safety advocacy groups. Though they cost more upfront, Dressman and other environmental advocates argue that electric buses offer many more benefits in the long run than upgraded buses that run on alternative fuels.
Emerging “vehicle-to-grid” technology could help school districts not just save money, but actually generate revenue from electric school buses. This technology allows electric vehicles to act as batteries that charge when there’s low demand on the power grid, or when renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines are producing a lot, and then send electricity back onto the grid during times of high demand—including emergency situations like last year’s Winter Storm Uri.
“Electric school buses can be a way to minimize air pollution that’s already way higher than it should be in certain communities,” she said.
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