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Blue Bird Delivers 13 Electric School Buses to Bowling Green Independent Schools in Kentucky
First Zero-emission Vehicles in District’s School Bus Fleet MACON, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD), the leader in electric and
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFirst Zero-emission Vehicles in District’s School Bus Fleet\n\n\n MACON, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nBlue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD), the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, is supplying 13 electric school buses to the Bowling Green Independent School District (BGISD) in Kentucky. The school district serves approximately 4,400 students in eight schools. BGISD launched a pilot program to expand its school bus fleet with zero-emission vehicles to help advance student and community health.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230919907851/en/Blue Bird is delivering 13 electric, zero-emission school buses to the Bowling Green Independent School District (BGISD) in Kentucky to help the school district accelerate its transition to clean student transportation. BGISD buses transport daily around 2,300 students to and from schools. (Image provided by Bowling Green Independent School District)\nBlue Bird will provide ten Vision and three All American electric school buses to BGISD. Vision Type C electric buses can carry 72 students for up to 120 miles on a single charge. All American Type D electric buses can transport up to 84 students for the same distance. Depending on the charging infrastructure, both model buses take between three and eight hours to recharge fully.\n\n\nBlue Bird’s zero-emission vehicles will travel up to 75 miles on seven routes each school day, as they pick up and safely transport around 2,300 students to and from schools.\n\n\n“Bowling Green Independent Schools could not be more excited about ushering in a new era of zero-emission student transportation by acquiring our first 13 state-of-the-art electric school buses,” said BGISD Superintendent Gary Fields. “We are looking forward to a successful pilot program and to building on our relationship with Blue Bird.”\n\n\nBowling Green Independent Schools received a $5,135,000 grant through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2022 Clean School Bus Rebate Program to purchase its Blue Bird electric school bus fleet. This program is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) which provides a total of $5 billion over five years for clean school bus transportation nationwide. Last year, the EPA awarded nearly $1 billion in funding to school districts across all 50 ...