Mayor Wu’s office today announced a $35-million grant from the soon-to-be-decimated Environmental Protection Agency that will let BPS buy 125 30-sat battery-powered school buses.
The new buses will bring Boston closer to its goal of ferrying kids to and from school entirely in electric buses by 2030, and is part of an overall $735-milion EPA grant program aimed at replacing vehicles powered directly by fossil fuels.
Boston currently has 40 battery-powered buses, paid for in part through a separate $20-million grant and $6 million in funding from the state, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Eversource…