Blue Bird, a maker of school buses, opened up a production facility to meet the rising demand for electric school buses.

<div class="block">Blue Bird, a maker of school buses, opened up a production facility to meet the rising demand for electric school buses.</div>

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Blue Bird Opens Electric School Bus Factory

And the traditional yellow school bus getting an upgrade manufacturer Bluebird opening up a production facility to meet the rising demand for electric school buses. The company is calling it the electric vehicle build up center and it aims to increase production of electric school buses from 4 to 20 per day. Two versions of Bluebirds buses will be assembled at the new facility fitting between 77 84 passengers each. They each have a battery that provides about 120 miles of range and takes between 3 to 8 hours to recharge. While Bluebird currently operates about 1000 electric school buses, which is about 6% of the company's total volume.