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NYC's newest electric school buses come with a money-saving twist

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First Student deployed 40 new electric school buses in NYC's Brooklyn and Queens after completing a pilot project with Con Edison that used above-ground charging systems instead of buried cables, reducing infrastructure costs by 20 percent and accelerating installation timelines in dense urban environments.

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New York State requires all new school buses purchased by 2027 to be zero-emission and all school buses on the road to be zero-emission by 2035.

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