Electric Vehicles

Bay Area school districts are following Pittsburg’s lead as they slowly transition their bus fleets to a greener mode of transportation, so far including Milpitas, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Palo Alto and Redwood City.

More than 7,500 new electric Uber and Lyft vehicles have been approved by the Taxi and Limousine Commission since the start of the city’s Green Rides initiative, according to a lawsuit aimed at limiting the electric for-hire fleet.

A Massachusetts school district replaced aging gas-powered vans for special education with six new electric-powered Ford E-Transit school bus vans acquired through a lease-to-own program over a five-year period.

Falling prices, increased availability and incentives are giving the secondhand electric vehicle market the thrust it needs to grow, introducing the vehicles to a wider cross-section of consumers.

Under rules laid down by the California Air Resources Board, transit agencies across the state must convert their entire fleets to buses with zero tailpipe emissions by 2040. But Bay Area agencies are split on how to get there.

The questionable reliability of charging infrastructure in the state has been a pain point for EV drivers that threatens to hurt adoption and the state’s broader climate goals if not addressed.

The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service is offering new information and no-cost training related to preventing and addressing the safety issues associated with electric vehicle systems.

Republican state legislators in New York have proposed a bill to end the transition to electric school buses and push the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to study their utility.

New York's Republican state legislators are roundly criticizing a state mandate that was enacted in 2022, requiring school districts to transition to electric school buses in the next four years.

The federal cybersecurity certification brought by FedRAMP ensures that electric vehicle charging networks have the security protocols in place to protect data held and managed by federal agencies.

Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming increasingly common as electric vehicles spread, and are hard to extinguish. A new approach uses an electrolyte based on a commercial fire extinguisher.

The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it was taking back more than $18 million allocated to West Virginia schools because they'd been misclassified as "rural," but that is no longer the case.

The new e-buses in Baltimore are part of a nationwide push to transition the U.S.' 480,000 school buses away from their dependence on fossil fuels. Officials say the new vehicles will mean quieter roads and facilities.

Officials at Muscogee County School District in Georgia say they haven't applied for funding for electric buses because the mileage range and charge times would cause significant delays with transporting students.

The only two school districts in Wyoming to receive EPA Clean School Bus grants returned the money after deciding electric charging devices couldn’t handle their region’s extreme temperatures.

Numerous startups and other urban efforts are reorienting the smart city technology space toward one which more directly impacts the lives of residents and addresses the deepening climate crisis.

California’s leading climate regulator added performance metrics to a $200 million plan proposed by the nation’s largest public electric vehicle charging network Thursday.

Pontiac City School District in Michigan put $15.65 million in federal grant money through the Clean School Bus Program toward 40 electric buses, with chargers covered by the DTE Charging Forward program.