Blue Bird Corp., one of the largest and oldest makers of school buses, has fully embraced electric vehicles and will soon provide 13 electric buses to a Kentucky school district.
Bowling Green Independent School District said the purchase of the vehicles was made possible by a $5.1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law approved by Congress last year, according to a press release from Blue Bird.
Last year, the EPA awarded nearly $1 billion in funding to school districts in all 50 U.S. states, to provide more than 2,400 clean school buses. This year, the agency plans to offer an additional $1 billion for low- and zero-emission school buses.
Blue Bird, which said it is the only U.S.-owned school bus maker in the country, was founded in 1927. It has produced more than 20,000 propane, natural gas and electric-powered buses in recent years.
The Bowling Green buses include 10 that can carry up to 72 students and three that can carry 84 passengers. Both have a range of 120 miles on a single charge, the company said.
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