It will be like riding to school in a giant yellow Tesla.

It will be like riding to school in a giant yellow Tesla.

The short version:

• Three school districts in Virginia will have 50 electric school buses on the road by the end of 2020.
• This is the first stage of a plan to put 1,000 school buses on the road by 2025.
• These aren’t the first electric school buses to be used, but it is the largest project.
• Because of the large number of batteries, the buses will also serve as energy storage for emergency situations.

I love this. Kids will get used to electric transportation at a young age and anything else will seem old to them. It will be interesting to see how the state plans to use the energy storage as well.