Miami-Dade schools order electric buses from Blue Bird
Blue Bird has been selected to deliver 20 electric school buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida. This marks the first EVs in the district’s fleet of school buses.
Blue Bird will deliver its Vision electric school buses to the school district. Each of the vehicles has the capacity to carry 72 students for up to 120 miles per charge. For the charging infrastructure, the school district will cooperate with power utility Florida Power & Light to install 50 DC fast charging stations. In terms of funding for the undertaking, M-DCPS received a $11.6 million grant from Florida’s Volkswagen Mitigation Settlement Trust fund to acquire Blue Bird’s electric school buses.
Blue Bird had presented its Vision electric school bus just a few weeks ago in July, and announced plans to ramp up production capacities in May.
“Miami-Dade County Public Schools is excited to put its first 20 electric, zero-emission school buses into service signaling that we put our student and community health first,” said M-DCPS Superintendent Dr. Jose Dotres. “We are looking forward to a successful pilot program and to building on our decades-long relationship with Blue Bird, the district’s student transportation provider of choice.”
“This pilot program is a wonderful first step in the electrification of Miami-Dade’s fleet and improving the air quality for its students and the community-at-large,” added Britton Smith, president of Blue Bird Corporation.
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