Resource library
This report describes the advantages and various challenges associated with electrifying school buses, and presents recommendations to expedite the electrification process.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for Quebec.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for Prince Edward Island.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for Ontario.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for Nova Scotia.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for New Brunswick.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for the Federal Government of Canada.
This policy brief explores the political context, benefits, and challenges related to electric school buses, along with specific policy recommendations for British Columbia.
This report explores the environmental, social and economic opportunities ESBs offer Ontario, and lays out a series of priority actions that can be led concurrently and consecutively by key stakeholder groups.
This report explores Canada’s ZeroX2040 national strategy, outlining policy recommendations to electrify MHDV and build the necessary charging infrastructure.
This report explores V2G technology, its services and application to electric school buses in Canadian provinces.
This report discusses EV adoption in rural areas, addressing unique challenges like grid integration, distance from centers, and cold climates.
A report highlighting the environmental, health and, more particularly, financial benefits of electrifying Ontario’s school bus fleets.
This paper identifies and gathers information regarding advocacy stakeholders in the transition to ESBs in the U.S.
This brief provides an overview of federal funding for ESB and presents 2024 budget recommendations from CESBA.
Latest CESBA updates, and electric school bus related work and news.
Opportunities and barriers of battery repurposing and recycling so that school districts, vehicle manufacturers and policymakers can set a foundation to build a circular value chain.
Overview of the benefits of repowers, including power purchase price, supply chain benefits and promoting a circular economy.
Study looking at the allocation of funding for school bus replacements and retrofits to causally assess the impacts of upgrading buses on student attendance.
Presentation on school bus electrification in Canada, benefits, resources, best practices and initiatives.
Information on the testing standards and safety mechanisms for ESB batteries, statistics about vehicle thermal events, and training opportunities for technicians and first responders.
Policy brief addressing the state of school bus electrification in Nova Scotia, its importance and the progress still needed.
Podcast episode with Highland Electric Fleets about their alternative business model for helping school districts electrify their fleets.
Latest CESBA updates, and electric school bus related work and news.
Presentation by the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment about the 2023 HELD campaign promoting the electrification of school buses.
This brief provides an overview of federal funding for ESB and presents 2023 budget recommendations from CESBA.
The rationale and process for incorporating an equity perspective into school transportation electrification advocacy work.
Steps for key stakeholders to take to deploy V2X-enabled ESBs to provide emergency backup power, and potential funding opportunities to facilitate their deployment for resilience purposes.
Webinar on how electric school buses with vehicle-to-everything technology can serve as emergency mobile power units and enhance infrastructure resilience.
White Paper on finding and securing opportunities outside the traditional school budget.
White Paper on how energy planners can optimize the value of an electric school bus fleet.
White Paper on the important factors to consider for transitioning a school bus fleet, from grant funding programs to collaboration with key stakeholders.
Information on the composition of school bus fleets in the United States, including the model year, fuel type, manufacturer, seating capacity and ownership model.
Resources on the school bus electrification in the United States, featuring success stories, articles and factsheets for transportation managers.
Latest CESBA updates, and electric school bus related work and news.
Workshop on the benefits of electric school buses and the strategies for engaging stakeholders around it, drawing on the U.S. experience.
Recommendations for the B.C. government to better position itself in the electric vehicles battery sector.
Interactive tool providing an overview of the progress and commitment to electric vehicles around the world.
Webpage of the U.S.-based Electric School Bus Initiative.
Report tracking Canadian sub-national leadership in ZEV strategies, policies and investments.
Important considerations for electric bus and other heavy-duty vehicles charging.
Webpage of the Electric School Buses program of the U.S.-based Electrification Coalition.
Webpage of the U.S.-based Electric School Bus Coalition.
Webpage of the U.S.-based Alliance for Electric School Buses.
Latest CESBA updates, and electric school bus related work and news.
Webinar series examining the issues surrounding the adoption of low-carbon fuels and solutions to overcome them.
Lessons from Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s leading jurisdictions in school transportation electrification.
Plea for electrification of the New Brunswick government’s school bus fleet.
Review of electric bus technologies and their charging systems, future developments, and key steps to consider for successful deployment to small and medium-sized school bus operators.
Latest CESBA updates, and electric school bus related work and news.
Learn about the issue of electric school buses in the Maritimes in this recorded webinar co-hosted in partnership with Ecology Action Centre.
Presentation and comparaison of the advantages and disadvantages of the various vehicle charging options available or in development.
Report quantifying the potential climate, health, and economic benefits of electric school buses adoption in BC and assessing the policy options to accelerate it.
Comprehensive overview of the U.S. electric school bus market with a catalog of electric school bus models available.
Checklist of elements to consider in the process of electrifying a heavy vehicle fleet.
White Paper reviewing the health and economic development opportunities for school bus electrification in Ontario and best practices elsewhere.
Presentation as part of the Electric School Bus Initiative about the U.S. EPA new Clean School Bus Program and the ways to leverage it for your school district and community.
Template pitch deck developed as part of the Electric School Bus Initiative for people to use in promoting electric school buses to their school districts and communities.
Guide developed as part of the Electric School Bus Initiative to help school districts prepare for discussions with their electric utility about school bus electrification.
Discussion with community leaders who work to bring the benefits of electric school buses to their schools to learn about their motivations, obstacles, path to solutions and other solutions in their journey.
Resource library for municipal stakeholders working on electric vehicles deployment.
Interactive online resource to establish a current and shared knowledge base for worldwide commercially available offerings of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
Factsheet about the health impacts of diesel, gasoline and propane school buses and the benefits of transitioning New Brunswick’s school bus fleet to fully electric.
Review of the adverse effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health and the prevention and protection measures that can be taken to improve the associated health outcomes.
Recommendations of themes for decolonization of power structures and empowerment of indigenous communities needed to guide planning and development towards achieving a zero-emissions energy sector by 2035 in Canada.
Overview of the links between environmental justice and heavy-duty transportation, and recommendations on the Action Plan of the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Task Force led by the NESCAUM.
Modelling study exploring two scenarios to zero-emissions electricity by 2035 in Canada.
Progress from Our Northern Neighbors in Prince Edward Island
Recommendations to facilitate the electrification of school buses in Québec emanating from the work done in the context of the My Electric Bus campaign.
Presentation of the My Electric Bus campaign, aimed at sensitizing and supporting the various players in the school transportation sector in its transition to electrification.
Discussion with Stéphane Pascalon, expert in vehicle electrification, on the benefits and aspects of transportation electrification in Quebec as part of the My Electric Bus campaign.
Presentation by Hydro-Québec and the Ministère des transports du Québec on tips and tools for recharging school buses as part of the My Electric Bus campaign.
Virtual tour of Lion Electric’s electric bus manufacturing facility as part of the My Electric Bus campaign.
Study documenting the barriers to the deployment of electric school buses in Quebec and proposing recommendations to the Quebec government.
Evaluation of the costs and benefits associated with the use of electric vehicles to determine the cost effectiveness of V2G-capable electric school bus compared to a traditional diesel school bus.
Policy recommendations to accelerate the adoption of vehicle-to-grid technology across all electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the US.
Benefits of using V2G-enabled school buses and policy recommendations for accelerating their deployment.
FAQ on electric school buses’ health and climate impacts and funding.
Information on the state of school bus electrification in British Columbia and ways to get involved, featuring material for parents.
Information on the state of school bus electrification in Canada and ways to get involved, featuring material for parents.
