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Blue Bird Delivers 20 Electric School Buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida
First Zero-emission Vehicles in School Districts’ All Blue Bird School Bus Fleet MACON, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD), the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFirst Zero-emission Vehicles in School Districts’ All Blue Bird 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 20 electric school buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) in Florida, the first zero-emission vehicles in the districts’ all Blue Bird fleet of school buses.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230815775032/en/Blue Bird is delivering 20 Vision electric school buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) in Florida to help the school district accelerate its transition to clean student transportation. M-DCPS operates a fleet of nearly 1,000 Blue Bird buses which transport 40,000 students daily. (Photo: Business Wire)\nM-DCPS is the third-largest school district in the nation with more than 335,000 students and 50,000 adult learners. The milestone delivery represents a crucial step by the school district to shift to clean student transportation and to lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change.\n\n\nBlue Bird will provide its state-of-the-art Vision electric school buses to M-DCPS. Each vehicle can carry 72 students for up to 120 miles on a single charge. M-DCPS plans to team up with Florida Power & Light, the largest power utility in the state, to install 50 DC fast charging stations. Ten charging stations at the school district’s Southwest Transportation Facility should be operational by September 2023. Based on M-DCPS’ future charging infrastructure, the buses will take approximately six hours to recharge fully.\n\n\nM-DCPS maintains an all Blue Bird bus fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles. M-DCPS school buses travel more than 13,000 miles each school day, as they pick up and safely transport 40,000 students to and from schools.\n\n\n“Miami-Dade County Public Schools is excited to put its first 20 electric, zero-emission school buses into service signaling that we put our student and community health first,” said M-DCPS Superintendent Dr. Jose L. Dotres. “We are looking forward to a successful pilot program and to building on our decades-long relationship with Blue Bird, the district’s student transportation provider of choice.”\n\n\nM-DCPS received a $11.6 million grant from Florida’s Volkswag...