Who owns the electric school buses?

[Anonymous]

New school buses are electric. Who owns them?

[Anonymous]

Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

They don't own the buses.

[Anonymous]

Fleet companies usually do own the vehicles in question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fleet companies usually do own the vehicles in question.

Fleet companies? MCPS owns the diesel buses and always has.

[Anonymous]

Do DCUMers dream of electric buses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do DCUMers dream of electric buses?

MCPS already has them. For whatever reasons, they have not been used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do DCUMers dream of electric buses?

MCPS and the BOE have made a big deal about how the district is going electric because it’s so good for the environment. Voters are excited about the electric buses, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?

Well, there did you think electricity comes from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?

Well, there did you think electricity comes from?

Details, details. As long as voters hear ‘electric buses’, they are on board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do DCUMers dream of electric buses?

MCPS already has them. For whatever reasons, they have not been used.

I was stuck behind one just yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?

Well, there did you think electricity comes from?

Far easier to clean up thousands of power plants than millions of tailpipes. And, no, grid electricity in the US doesn't generally come from diesel.

[Anonymous]

The electric buses are not doing well even in the transit world.

Louisville spent a lot of money on them and they are not using them. It is one of those things that was not thought out very well.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/after-spending-millions-tarcs-downtown-louisville-electric-bus-fleet-sits-idle/article_d1c0cf82-5c75-11ed-b20a-abd9c4a95f78.html

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?

Well, there did you think electricity comes from?

Far easier to clean up thousands of power plants than millions of tailpipes. And, no, grid electricity in the US doesn't generally come from diesel.

Coal then...