On 26 Oct 2022 at 15:04, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > ... $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 > <scare-quote>clean</scare-quote> school buses under a new federal > program. ... Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were > electric as of last year ...
So this represents a potential 52% increase in the number of E-buses carrying noisy brats to and from school. Not bad. The negative way to spin this is to point out that even with that 52% increase, we'll still only be at 1.5% EV. But hey, it's a good start. Now if we could just get their mommies to quit driving their ICE-SUVs to the end of their driveways to pick the kids up right off the bus. Heaven forbid they should have to walk up the driveway. My neighbor actually does this. But I digress. I'd like to see the EPA put the pedal down on this program. The sooner we get E-buses on the road, the more good they'll do. And let's put a thumb on the scale for EVs. The EPA has $5 billion in IIJ Act money to spend on "clean school buses." Scandalously (IMO), half of it can be - but doesn't have to be - spent on "low emission" buses, which I suspect will be CNG Diesel. We need the EPA to use that pile of cash in the next couple of years, and ideally on 100% E-buses, if that's possible under the law. Not to get partisan here, but we have to be realistic. Given the way things are going politically in the US, if the EPA doesn't spend all $5b in their piggy bank before FY25, they're likely to lose the opportunity. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The truth is paywalled, but lies are free. -- Nathan Robinson = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
