The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Blue Bird with $4.4 million to develop an electric school bus with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. With a total of almost $9 million to work with through matching funds from other groups, Blue Bird will build a demonstration fleet of eight buses in California by 2019. In order to help lower the cost of ownership, these electric buses will have the technology to supply energy back into the
Blue Bird, Lion Bus have big plans for electric school buses
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