Electric school buses might make sense, but I work for the biggest school bus operator in the North America, based in Cincinnati and they are CHEAP!!!!! The conglomerate head office is in Scotland so yes, they live up to the reputation of Scots!
A school bus is ‘timed out’ in many jurisdictions after 5 years. In Alberta, it is 25 years, so we get all the hand me downs and the chances of them buying electric school buses are slim to none. I drive one of the ‘newer’ buses in the local fleet, almost 15 years of age and over three hundred thousand kilometers (185,000 miles).
I’m surprised at the 5 year window. Those must really be affluent school systems.
Around here it used to be 10 and it’s gone to 12 in the last few years.