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Electric school buses
Simplify your school’s transition to an electric school bus fleet with our turnkey process combined with dependable and affordable electric school buses on your terms and budget.
What Are Electric School Buses?
An electric school bus fleet provides zero-emissions transportation
Electric school buses offer huge health and education benefits to students, schools, and the community. Transitioning to an electric school bus fleet improves air quality, reduces emissions and noise pollution, cuts costs, and provides students with a more comfortable service. But building an electric school bus fleet and installing electric bus charging infrastructure is a complicated process, and most schools need a partner.
As one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies, Enel North America can work with your school to understand your unique transportation requirements and budget constraints, then define electrification options based on your school’s needs. Our turnkey solutions remove the high up-front cost of electrification and simplify the transition to an electric school bus fleet.
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How It Works
The school bus fleet electrification journey
First steps
4 - 6 months
Implementation
8 - 12 months
Follow up
Service lifetime
Planning
The starting point is a feasibility study and school bus fleet electrification plan, including optimal electric school bus count, battery sizing, and charging strategy.
Chargers
We identify the right electric bus charging system for your school’s needs and deliver an efficient charge management strategy to lower overall costs.
Electric school bus
We analyze school routes and trips to ensure the most suitable electric school bus is chosen.
Install
Enel has a national network of installers. Our installers access your school bus lot and infrastructure, engage the utility, and manage installation from beginning to end.
Financing
To eliminate high up-front costs, Enel offers flexible financing for electric school buses, batteries, or charging equipment – resulting in one annual fee.
Energy
We secure the lowest cost renewable energy and remove the risk of fluctuating energy prices.
Customer support
Enel offers best-in-class maintenance with ongoing 24/7 customer support.
Healthy students
No inhaled diesel fumes
Happy drivers
Electric buses are quiet and easy to drive
Cleaner air
Zero tailpipe emissions
Engaged operations
Reduce maintenance by 60%
First steps
4 - 6 months
Planning
The starting point is a feasibility study and school bus fleet electrification plan, including optimal electric school bus count, battery sizing, and charging strategy.
Implementation
8 - 12 months
Chargers
We identify the right electric bus charging system for your school’s needs and deliver an efficient charge management strategy to lower overall costs.
Electric school bus
We analyze school routes and trips to ensure the most suitable electric school bus is chosen.
Install
Enel has a national network of installers. Our installers access your school bus lot and infrastructure, engage the utility, and manage installation from beginning to end.
Financing
To eliminate high up-front costs, Enel offers flexible financing for electric school buses, batteries, or charging equipment – resulting in one annual fee.
Follow up
Service lifetime
Energy
We secure the lowest cost renewable energy and remove the risk of fluctuating energy prices.
Customer support
Enel offers best-in-class maintenance with ongoing 24/7 customer support.
Healthy students
No inhaled diesel fumes
Happy drivers
Electric buses are quiet and easy to drive
Cleaner air
Zero tailpipe emissions
Cleaner Air
Zero tailpipe emissions
Engaged operations
Reduce maintenance by 60%
Benefits
The value of an electric school bus fleet
Unlock energy cost savings
Make energy spending more efficient with decreased fuel costs and unlock new revenue streams.
Reduce your carbon footprint
Reduce emissions (CO2, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter) to benefit students, the community, and the environment.
Reduce risk and fluctuating costs
Secure the lowest-cost renewable energy for your electric school bus fleet to remove the risk of fluctuating energy prices and gain budget stability.
Leverage unprecedented funding
Take advantage of historic funding, available now but not in perpetuity, by acting now to transition your fleet to electric school buses.
Why Enel North America
We are your partner to enable your electric school bus fleet
Electric bus-as-a-service
Enel North America’s core school bus fleet electrification solution is a comprehensive electrification bundle with a low annual fee. With this service, we manage electrification from A to Z. Schools receive fully charged electric school buses for their drivers to use 365 days a year. Instead of dealing with the complexity of managing an electric school bus fleet, school administrators can focus on what matters most – providing a quality education for their students.
Services: Feasibility and planning, electric bus charging system, installation, electric school buses, maintenance of chargers and buses, financing, energy and ongoing 24/7 support.
Charging as-a-service
For schools that prefer to own their electric school bus fleet, this solution provides everything required to charge an electric fleet. Schools purchase and maintain electric school buses while Enel North America designs, installs, manages, and maintains the electric bus charging infrastructure, guaranteeing its continuous operation.
Services: Feasibility and planning, electric bus charging system, installation, maintenance of chargers and electric school buses, financing, energy and ongoing 24/7 support
School sustainability
Enel North America designs and builds systems to increase resilience and reduce environmental impact. Our energy experts will propose the right combination of on-site solar panels, on-site battery storage and efficiency solutions by working with your facilities and sustainability managers to design a system to address your school’s specific needs. We have designed and implemented hundreds of projects that use renewable energy to provide backup power and reduce monthly energy expenditure. Our solutions can work perfectly with your school’s sustainability goals.
Services: Turnkey system managed and optimized by single solution provider, guaranteed continuity of operations, customized system to meet your sustainability goals.
Project funding
Enel North America will exhaust all resources to ensure your project is optimally funded. We identify and apply all public funding available at that federal, state, and local level. In addition, our existing relationships with local utilities allow us to work quickly and efficiently to ensure utility incentives are applied. Beyond this, we will also leverage industry knowledge to create additional revenue streams from programs like demand response as well as V2G when available. Our approach ensures the lowest possible cost for your project.
24/7 customer support
It’s crucial that your electric school buses are ready when you need them. Enel North America already supports over 170,000 charging stations in the United States with our 24/7 customer support center. Our U.S. based support team can troubleshoot most issues remotely and is available via phone, email, or chat. When needed, technicians are dispatched to your school within 48 hours.
Why Enel North America
We are your partner to enable your electric school bus fleet
Enel North America’s core school bus fleet electrification solution is a comprehensive electrification bundle with a low annual fee. With this service, we manage electrification from A to Z. Schools receive fully charged electric school buses for their drivers to use 365 days a year. Instead of dealing with the complexity of managing an electric school bus fleet, school administrators can focus on what matters most – providing a quality education for their students.
Services: Feasibility and planning, electric bus charging system, installation, electric school buses, maintenance of chargers and buses, financing, energy and ongoing 24/7 support.
For schools that prefer to own their electric school bus fleet, this solution provides everything required to charge an electric fleet. Schools purchase and maintain electric school buses while Enel North America designs, installs, manages, and maintains the electric bus charging infrastructure, guaranteeing its continuous operation.
Services: Feasibility and planning, electric bus charging system, installation, maintenance of chargers and electric school buses, financing, energy and ongoing 24/7 support
Enel North America designs and builds systems to increase resilience and reduce environmental impact. Our energy experts will propose the right combination of on-site solar panels, on-site battery storage and efficiency solutions by working with your facilities and sustainability managers to design a system to address your school’s specific needs. We have designed and implemented hundreds of projects that use renewable energy to provide backup power and reduce monthly energy expenditure. Our solutions can work perfectly with your school’s sustainability goals.
Services: Turnkey system managed and optimized by single solution provider, guaranteed continuity of operations, customized system to meet your sustainability goals.
Enel North America will exhaust all resources to ensure your project is optimally funded. We identify and apply all public funding available at that federal, state, and local level. In addition, our existing relationships with local utilities allow us to work quickly and efficiently to ensure utility incentives are applied. Beyond this, we will also leverage industry knowledge to create additional revenue streams from programs like demand response as well as V2G when available. Our approach ensures the lowest possible cost for your project.
It’s crucial that your electric school buses are ready when you need them. Enel North America already supports over 170,000 charging stations in the United States with our 24/7 customer support center. Our U.S. based support team can troubleshoot most issues remotely and is available via phone, email, or chat. When needed, technicians are dispatched to your school within 48 hours.
