Less than 40% of EV school buses purchased with Biden-era EPA grants have been delivered: ‘Taxpayer dollars vanished’
Less than 40% of electric school buses funded by EPA grants have been delivered to school districts. Concerns over delivery delays and vehicle reliability have led some districts to withdraw from the $5 billion program.
The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out -- and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel...
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