And the traditional yellow school bus getting an upgrade manufacturer
Bluebird opening up a production facility to meet the rising
demand for electric school buses. The company is calling
it the electric vehicle build up center and it aims
to increase production of electric school buses from 4 to
20 per day. Two versions of Bluebirds buses will
be assembled at the new facility fitting between 77 84
passengers each. They each have a battery that provides
about 120 miles of range and takes between 3 to
8 hours to recharge. While Bluebird currently operates about
1000 electric school buses, which is about 6% of
the company's total volume.