New electric buses added to school districts fleet, funded mostly through School Replacement Program

DEL NORTE COUNTY, Calif. (KIEM)-Del Norte Unified School District will add two new electric buses to their fleet, and most of the cost will be off-set through the school bus replacement program.

The California Energy Commission reached out to the district with good news, the program will a pay most of the cost per bus and infrastructure.

The total cost of the project is estimated at around $880,000, which includes the two buses, a charging station with two dispensers and the routing metered for future charging stations.

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The $762,568 will go toward the project, which leaves $118,000 left to be paid by the district but because of limited bus service due to the pandemic roughly $200,000 savings will fund the rest of the project.

DNUSD’s Director of Transportation Derrick Campbell says, benefits of owning an electric bus will save the district in fuel cost and maintenance cost and says, according to the builder, on average will save $6,400 savings, every year.

Electric buses don’t need routine maintenance such as oil changes, filter changes, the regenerative braking which means the brakes can go longer between replacement in the span of eight to 10 years, an additional $60,000 to taxpayers, according to Campbell.

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“I was hesitant at first because I wanted to make sure safety wasn’t compromised, but anything we can do to for the environment and go green and zero emissions that great,” he said. “Probably be in somewhere in September that we’ll see them [electric school buses]so next school year.”

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Campbell says the zero emission vehicles will allow students and the community to breath fewer fuel particulates than traditional school buses.