Electric school buses are taking students back to school – bringing cleaner air and lower maintenance costs to school districts across the country
- Written by Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Studies, The New School
A new EV schoolbus from an all-electric fleet parked beside charging stations at South El Monte High School in California, Aug. 18, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesEach weekday, more than half of the K-12 students in the U.S. – over 25 million pupils – ride a school bus. Until very recently, nearly all of these 500,000 buses...
