Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill making electric school buses an option for New Mexico school districts passes its first committee Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.

A University of Bath study shows that while electric buses are cheaper to fuel and maintain than diesel, they can spend longer off the road due to parts shortages and the need for specialist repairs.

But their worries can be put to rest because like all modern infrastructure school buses too are evolving with new-age engineering. GPS-enabled alerts, for instance, negates the need to handover a ...