Students at BelovED Community Charter School will soon be riding to classes in brand new, zero-emission, electric buses.Governor Phil Murphy announced yesterday that the Jersey City charter school had been awarded a $1.28 million grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Electric School Bus Grant Program. The grant will enable the school to purchase four electric school buses and two fast charging stations. The funding for the school buses and rapid charging stations will, say administrators, allow BelovED to enhance its existing free bus transportation from and to every neighborhood in Jersey City, while helping to reduce the school’s overall carbon footprint.Today, BelovEd Director of Operations Duanne Moeller said “We look forward to working with our partners to develop a long term plan for electric vehicles.” Beloved Community Charter SchoolThe Murphy administration’s Electric School Bus Grant Program is administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and is funded through the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ Clean Energy Fund. It was authorized by legislation passed in 2022 to provide up to $45 million in funding over three years to replace diesel school buses with battery-electric school buses. The program also funds the installation of charging infrastructure.Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, making up 37 percent of all emissions. Of the 21,700 school buses registered in New Jersey, more than 99 percent run on fossil fuels.The post BelovEd Community Charter School to Get Electric School Buses appeared first on Jersey City Times.