NY to award $18.9M to increase number of electric buses in state New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a series of initiatives to increase the number of electric buses in New York. Specifically, this effort includes $16.4 million in incentives for the expansion of electric bus usage amongst public transportation authorities, as well as $2.5 million for school bus operators to acquire cleaner forms of transportation with lower emissions. Under the New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program (NYTVIP) program, $16.4 million of Volkswagen settlement funding is being made available to five of the largest public transit operators in the state—the Capital District Transportation Authority, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Rochester-Genesee Regional Transit Authority, Suffolk County Transportation and Westchester County Bee-Line Bus System—to facilitate their fleets’ transition towards 100 percent zero-emissions fleets by 2035.