When talking about schools moving towards electric buses, instead of diesel, the discussion tends to focus on
However, we think it's at least as important to emphasize the student safety benefits of Electric Vehicles. A move to EVs won't just help your long-term budgeting, but could help your students in very practical ways.
How Do EV Buses Improve Student Safety?
1 - Fewer Emissions = Less Harm
Let's start with the obvious one: whenever students are riding on a diesel bus, that means they're being exposed to the exhaust fumes every day. Over time, this builds up to a substantial amount of pollution inhaled - harming their lungs, and exposing them to carcinogens.
However, it goes further than that: Scientific studies have shown that lowered exposure to diesel fumes actually improves test scores! Diesel fumes seem to directly harm your students' ability to learn.
Plus, of course, fewer emissions going into the atmosphere improve air quality across your city.
2 - Lower Chances of Rollover
School buses are already incredibly safe, but one of the few dangers is rollover. If the bus ever tips over, the riders are in trouble. However, E-buses reduce this danger because the battery is huge, extremely heavy, and located on the bottom of the bus.
This radically lowers the bus's center of gravity, to the point that rollover is virtually impossible unless the bus literally falls off a cliff.
3 - Less Risk of Fire
Electric vehicle batteries can catch fire, and the fire is hard to extinguish if it does happen. However, EVs have also been found to be substantially less likely to catch fire, compared to internal combustion vehicles whose fire risk is up to twenty times higher.
So overall, EVs further reduce dangers to students on the road.
4 - Fewer On-Road Breakdowns
Finally, keep in mind that the lowered maintenance needs of EVs also means fewer breakdowns occurring on the road. Any on-road incident puts students in danger, so easy-to-maintain vehicles inherently improve student safety as well.
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Sonia has been involved with BusBoss since the late 1990’s, and has personally overseen many projects for various customers ranging from large urban and suburban districts to smaller rural school districts from all over the country.