Inside Climate News: “EPA’s Clean School Bus ‘Revamp’ Means Less Support for EVs”
RFF research about the high price of electric school buses is cited in this story about changing federal investment policies.
“But switching to electric buses has been a difficult decision to make for chronically cash-strapped public school systems. A 2024 report in Resources for the Future’s magazine put the average price of an electric school bus at $352,000, or three and a half times the price of diesel buses, which typically cost less than $100,000.”