There’s no revving as the engine of yellow school bus number 772 accelerates uphill, and no fumes as it pulls into the parking lot of a White Plains, N.Y., elementary school.
“Oh, it’s the electric bus!” one student exclaims, jumping up and down with his friend—two of the lucky ones who get to ride it home.
Little do they know it’s not just any electric bus, it’s also a battery on wheels, one of five in the state as part of New York electric company Con Edison’s vehicle-to-grid pilot program based in the White Plains district.
The Lion Electric Co. ...