Calhoun County was one of eighteen school districts in West Virginia that participated in a pilot program with the GreenPower Motor Company’s Electric buses. The study was done to determine how buses performed in the mountainous areas of West Virginia and the varying weather conditions. Where the average cost of diesel fuel for a bus Read More…
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My experience with Green Power’s Electric School bus Beast
Submitted by Barry Miller, Calhoun County Schools Bus Driver Beast stands for “battery electric automotive school transportation.” I will not address battery safety, charging cost or if battery power is feasible. Those issues are for others to decide. I am a school bus driver with eighteen years of full-time driving experience and three years of Read More…
Electric Bus Pilot Program now Operating in Calhoun
Calhoun County Schools began the Wednesday’s School day having their first test drive of an electric school bus. The Bus was provided free of charge to the school for the next six weeks by GreenPower Motor Company allowing most of the drivers to test drive the bus on their individual runs. First Calhoun driver to Read More…