Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system, will add hundreds of electric bus school buses to its fleet, and will become the biggest operator of electric school buses in the U.S., with the goal of going all electric in 14 years.
Under a contract approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education Tuesday, Montgomery County Public Schools will introduce over 300 electric vehicles to its fleet of school buses in the coming years.
The goal, county leaders said, is for the school system’s current fleet of school buses which boasts more than 1,400 vehicles to go completely electric by the year 2035.
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Biggest Electric School Bus Deal in US Approved in Maryland
A SAF T- Liner EC2 electric school bus, manufactured by Thomas Built Buses. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News)
A school system outside Washington is poised to become the nation’s biggest operator of electric school buses.
The Board of Education in Maryland’s Montgomery County voted unanimously Feb. 23 to approve a 16-year, $169 million contract to lease 326 buses, part of a plan that could result in the county replacing its entire 1,422-bus fleet over the next two decades.
The deal represents the largest municipal government order of any kind for buses, according to Monique Harris, a spokeswoman for Advanced Energy Economy, a business association that promotes clean energy use.
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