Transportation accounts for at least 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions, roughly eight billion tons of carbon per year. With Tesla rising, General Motors pledging to retire gasoline-powered lines ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pressing the accelerator on its rollout of electric school buses. CMS is one of 15 school districts in the state of North Carolina, and 531 nationwide, selected by the ...

Kids attending the Ralls County School District board buses at the end of the school day in the fall of 2023 in Center, Missouri. While most of the district’s buses are powered by gas or diesel, it ...

At the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, executives from SEPTA gave free rides on gleaming new battery-powered buses. The PR stunt was meant to herald the transit agency’s intent to ...

Between the federal government, states and municipalities, untold billions in taxpayer dollars have been spent adding electric buses to transit fleets across the U.S. in an effort to reduce carbon ...

The number of electric school buses on America’s roads is rising—and as with any substantial change to school district operations, there’s no shortage of growing pains. Several school districts in ...

Sixteen of the roughly 130 school buses operated by the Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento County, Calif., are powered by electricity. That number is set to more than double in the next ...

The sun is just beginning to rise over the farm fields of the Herscher school district, 70 miles southwest of Chicago, but the youngest passengers on Bus 24 are already buzzing with excitement. The ...

The hardest workers in our society — people in construction, road maintenance and firefighting crews, among many others — keep close watch on the carbon dioxide levels in their work areas. When carbon ...

Electric transit buses operated by Montgomery County, Md., sit at the new Brookville Smart Energy Depot in Silver Spring. An increasing number of public transportation agencies are swapping fossil ...

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