A diesel-powered school bus costs $97,000. It gets about six or seven miles to a gallon of gas. A propane-powered school bus costs $102,000. It gets about five miles to the gallon. So go the numbers on Long Island, N.Y., where administrators from the Riverhead School District recently added two new propane buses and two […]
Students in Houston, Texas, will be going on propane-powered field trips in the near future. The city’s independent school district has received a grant worth $2.1 million to help with the purchase of 25 new LPG school buses, says School Transportation News. The money — from the state’s commissions on environmental quality and railroads — […]
This week, FleetOwner Magazine took a look at one of the propane-powered school buses from Blue Bird. And anyone expecting some kind of futuristic hovercraft will be disappointed. This bus is big and yellow (and it probably has a tiny fan by the driver seat, like school bus drivers always use). The difference between a […]