Even Republicans have tolerated one Biden-era climate program: a $5 billion effort to buy electric school buses and give kids’ lungs a break from diesel pollution.
But now a major bus supplier has collapsed — leaving school districts with technology that’s hard to fix.
Lion, an electric truck- and bus-maker based in Quebec, is in bankruptcy after selling roughly 3,400 buses in the United States. Last month, its new investors notified alarmed school districts that they would not honor warranties.
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“They ran properly for approximately two weeks, then we started getting error messages,” said Andrew Dolloff, the superintendent of schools in Yarmouth, Maine, about the district’s two Lion buses.
