Blue Bird Corporation is supplying 23 electric school buses to Carter County Schools (CCS) in Kentucky. The zero-emission vehicles mark a new era of clean student transportation for the school district. CCS operates eleven schools serving approximately 4,200 students.

Blue Bird provides its new Vision electric school buses to CCS. The electric bus features an extended range, faster battery charging, and increased seating capacity. Blue Bird?s most advanced Vision electric school bus carries a higher-capacity battery of 196kWh, a more than 25% capacity increase compared to the previous model bus.

The battery enables a vehicle range of up to 130 miles on a single charge. The high-performance battery takes merely three hours to fully recharge since it supports a fast-charging rate of 80kW. The compact and lightweight batteries contribute to improved efficiency and a vehicle weight reduction of approximately 1,000 lbs.

In turn, Blue Bird increased the seating capacity of its new Vision electric bus to 77 passengers, up from 72 passengers. After the completion of the latest Blue Bird bus delivery, CCS will maintain a bus fleet of nearly 75 vehicles. CCS school buses travel more than 3,600 miles each school day, as they pick up and safely transport up to 3,000 students to and from schools.