And think of the cost. Diesel is cheap, buses stay in service for years and it takes just a few minutes to refuel. You’d need hundreds of charging stations for every school district. Instead of just a few fuel pumps. It would cost literally 10s of billions to convert all school buses for a marginal cost benefit.

School buses also have secondary uses as evacuation vehicles so relying on electric isn’t a secure option. Hurricane Katrina, for example, used hundreds of buses for evacuations and it would have been extremely difficult to charge a bunch of buses off generators.