“Kids on buses are inhaling diesel particles at 10 times the rate of children who aren’t on these buses, and exposure to diesel on school buses correlates to increased risk of cancer and increased frequency and severity of asthma attacks,” says Dr. Christakis.

Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.

When New York’s all-electric school bus legislation passed in 2022, environmentalists lauded it as a visionary plan and a victory in the climate fight, while school administrators and parents cheered the health and safety benefits it would provide for the state's more than 2 million children who ride to and from school each day.

Oakland became the first school district in the nation to have a fully electric fleet of school buses today. In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District and Zum, a student transportation company,

Starting in August, a fleet of 74 electric school buses in Oakland, Calif. will be able to discharge electricity from their batteries back onto the grid, the groups involved in th

The humble yellow school bus just got a complete makeover. Out of all places, Oakland has taken the lead in the electrification efforts. Gone are the smelly diesel buses, replaced with a fleet of 74 new,

An Oakland, California, school district is now the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with V2G technology.

Zum, the modern student transportation platform, announced today that Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) will be the first major school district in the U.S. to transition to a 100% electrified school bus system with groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid technology.