Cost/Benefit Electrifying City Buses

What’s happening? New Jersey is spending $100 Million to electrify garbage trucks, school buses and passenger buses. Funding sources include proceeds the state realized from a greenhouse gas initiative and the Volkswagen settlement.

Why is this important? Funding for electrification goes beyond public transit and includes $36 million for the state’s industrial areas and ports to begin using electric equipment.

How will this be important? An electrification transit bill is an avenue for industrial electrification too.

AP | NJ earmarks $100M to build up electric truck, bus fleets