Electric buses

[thesaltydog24]

Van Buren local schools near Findlay Ohio will be looking into electric buses or other hybrid conversions for their school bus fleet.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2012/09/17/Electric-buses-under-study-for-schools-in-area.html

 

[ol trunt]

Are they also looking into extension cords?--long ones

 

[chev49]

for some reason they sell really cheap on eBay after they are out of service...

 

[Redbear]

The local transits now advertise on their sides that they are hybrids, and have interesting roof pods . . . but they still have diesel stacks. We are getting closer.

. . . On second thoughts, just make the little sprogs walk to school. That will stop them becoming obese, and save the school districts some money. "When I was young I had to walk eleven miles each way to school, uphill both ways, in the snow, barefoot, carrying my little sister, and then I had to dig coal in the coalmine after school. If i were lucky I'd get one bowl of cold gruel a week, and that's after my dad beat me for no reason. Kids these days don't know how good they've got it. Yada yada yada."

John

Mining coal must have been in the Appalachians or on the "other side of the pond." My job was to go to DMV in place of my boss's customers every day after school, and stand in line to process their paperwork . . . . so now bureaucrats don't scare me all that easily.