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The Steamboat Springs School District Transportation Department is ordering a Blue Bird all-electric school bus this month. The same type of electric bus was delivered to Boulder Valley School District on Wednesday becoming the first electric school bus in Colorado. (Photo courtesy of Boulder Valley School District)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Some Steamboat Springs School District students taking the bus to school or activities next school year will be riding in quiet electric style.
After receiving a more than $317,000 ALT Fuels Colorado grant in January, the district will place an order within the week for an all-electric-powered, 72-passenger Blue Bird school bus, according to Casey Ungs, the district’s transportation manager.
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Colorado Pushes Shift to EVs to Counteract Climate Change While officials hope to see 940,000 EVs on roads by 2030, it is estimated that 1 million drivers will need to switch to EVs to achieve the state’s greenhouse reduction goals. Currently there are 33,654 EVs on Colorado’s roads. Bruce Finley, The Denver Post | March 2, 2021 | News
(TNS) A decade ago when electric vehicles first appeared on Colorado car lots, buyers typically were green, the environmentalist hue, motivated to save children and other living things.
Auto dealer Sean Tynan recalled a couple in their 50s, professors, inspecting a Nissan Leaf 31 times over two months. They measured it, even laid under it peering up pensively to verify it wouldn t pollute before converting, Tynan said.
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A crew at work repairing power lines south of Grand Lake on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, that were damaged by the East Troublesome fire.
On a summer evening in 2018, a set of tracer rounds from a shooting range ignited a fire near Basalt, Colo. Dry weather let the blaze grow into the Lake Christine Fire, which would burn more than 12,000 acres and destroy about half a dozen homes.
It also burned three of four transmission lines running into Aspen. If the fourth had gone down, the city could have lost electricity for weeks, according to Holy Cross Energy, the local power supplier.
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