Taxpayers are set to give the struggling electric bus industry a jolt after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced nearly $20 million for 70 zero-emission buses at nine Illinois school districts.
On Thursday, Pritzker’s office announced the Illinois State Board of Education awarded a $19.9 million grant from the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program funded by federal tax dollars as part of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C is set to get 32 school buses and charging infrastructure. Joliet Township High School District 204 and Zion-Benton Township High School District 126 will each get 10 school buses and charging infrastructure. Six other districts will also get at least one bus and charging infrastructure.
Each bus comes to about $284,000.
“[T]hese districts will receive electric school buses, charging infrastructure, and workforce training – reducing harmful emissions and improving air quality,” Pritzker said in a statement. […]
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