The grants will allow transit agencies and governments to buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses, and half of the vehicles will have zero carbon emissions.
FILE-A fully electric Chicago Transit Authority bus pulls up to a charging station on Feb. 22, 2022. The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding almost $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories.
"Every day, millions of Americans climb aboard over 60,000 buses to get to work, to school, doctor’s appointments, everywhere they need to be," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters. "These are unprecedented levels of investment when it comes to putting modern cleaner buses on the road."
The Biden administration said that the new buses will improve public health as diesel exhaust will no longer be going into the air and that the new buses will be easier to maintain.
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