Greening the Yellow Takes Assistance


The all-electric Trans Star Type-A school bus from Trans Tech and Motiv Power Systems.


“I’d like to know more about how the whole propane system works…If they had more of these trainings fairly close by, we’d be all over that.”


—Randy Arndt, Vinton-Shellsburg School District, Iowa


Reed at IC Bus said that the different in-


frastructure needed for refueling or charging and maintaining buses is a big consideration for districts. “Propane requires less infra- structure changes to your facility because it actually drops to the ground, whereas CNG rises to the top, so CNG requires infrastruc- ture changes if you want to do maintenance work yourself,” she said. With electric buses, infrastructure and maintenance changes also involve new financial models including working with utilities and possible battery exchange or vehicle-to-grid programs. “We see it being a different business mod- el, the life of the battery, how the customer pays for that battery, the infrastructure costs; we are still working through a lot of those variables,” Reed added. “Tere will be a sea change with electrification.” 


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44 School Transportation News • FEBRUARY 2018


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