Anyone who has gone to school in the United States remembers the smell of diesel exhaust from riding the iconic yellow school bus, but few realize the danger of breathing those fumes. Thankfully, our children can ride pollution-free, all-electric buses that don’t cause asthma or harm brain development – and electrifying our school bus fleet is worth billions to American manufacturing.

The electric school bus transition is accelerating across the country. California’s Modesto City Schools recently placed the largest electric bus order in history, Boston is switching its 700 school buses to electric, and New York just passed a bill to electrify its statewide school bus fleet by 2035. And more schools can plug in thanks to the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA) $5 billion for clean school buses.