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Canada’s electric school bus transition earns poor grades in most provinces
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this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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It wasn't that long ago that school bus manufacturers announced they were no longer going to make gas busses. So this is happening with our without good planning. Working on an electric bus, they present a few problems mostly that running heat or cooling is costly on the batteries and if you have a long route you may simply not run those at all.