Monday, November 22, 2021

The MCPS Electric Bus Deal: "The small, three-year-old company currently has only one school bus on the road."

 

February 24, 2021

...Montgomery County’s first 25 electric buses will begin operating this fall, followed by 61 buses in 2022 and then 120 in each of the two years after that. Spread across five bus depots, Montgomery ranks among the 10 largest school bus fleets in the country...

...The small, three-year-old company currently has only one school bus on the road. But this month it raised $253 million from venture capital firms.

Highland plans to buy its vehicles from Thomas Built Buses, a North Carolina subsidiary of Daimler Benz, and use batteries made by California-based Proterra. Proterra says its school bus batteries can completely recharge in three hours...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/02/24/climate-solutions-electric-schoolbuses/?commentID=f49391cb-a269-4180-ac6e-8e247ec18d28

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