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Electric School Bus Webinar | Acknowledging Barriers and Providing a Path Forward
May 23, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Join Drive Clean Colorado on May 23 from 11-12:30 PM (MT) for a webinar for school district fleets, energy and transportation professionals. For the past six months, Drive Clean Colorado and others have been conducting Listening Sessions with school districts around the state to identify barriers and successes they face in transitioning their fleet to clean buses.
This interactive webinar will take a look at the barriers that were identified in the listening sessions and offer resources and solutions that will provide a path forward. Through a roundtable discussion with the speakers below, this webinar provides a unique opportunity to have key industry players provide insight on specific concerns while providing tangible solutions for school districts. Our Q&A session will allow for follow-up questions from districts. This webinar is sponsored by the Blue Bird Corporation.
Register for this webinar here.
Speakers list:
- Jeff Koza | Blue Bird Buses
- Landon Hillard & Andrew Thompson | Boulder Valley School District
- Matt Goble | Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Matt Lerman | Colorado Energy Office
- Nick Bettis | Lightning eMotors
- Paola Massoli | Microgrid Labs
- Abby Brown & Ryan Frasier | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Vishant Kothari | World Resource Institute
- YeChan Lim & Courtney Johnson | Environmental Protection Agency
Some of the challenges to be discussed:
| Buses are not available, long wait for buses |
| Lack of existing infrastructure, long wait for infrastructure and charging hardware |
| Inoperability issues, chargers/buses/data don’t work together |
| Batteries are not safe, fire risk |
| Technicians need to be trained/hired |
| Colorado weather is unfriendly to electric vehicles |
| ESBs won’t work in Colorado’s terrain (steep grades) |
| Few routes are right for ESBs |
| Funding is confusing, district doesn’t have capacity to take on grant writing or new designation |
| The district has other priorities |
| Electric buses are the “flavor of the day” (like CNG was a few years ago) |