Winning the large private fleet award with 30 percent of its fleet powered by propane is Pacific Western Transportation , a contractor that operates in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
According to the PWT, the propane buses removed 3,229 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere in 2019 alone.
083 in Washington state was recognized for operating both propane and electric buses, which have eliminated 20,000 pounds of nitrogen oxide emissions and 468 pounds of PM per year.
Meanwhile, the Mobile County Public School System in Alabama took home the large public fleet award for 255 propane school buses out of a fleet of 1,000.
The small private fleet award goes to Durham School Services and the Norwalk Board of Education in Connecticut, where all 65 of the school buses are powered by propane.
A special “Pioneer in School Bus Electrification” award was also given to Tim Shannon, the director of transportation for Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento, California, which continues to operate the largest fleet of electric school buses in North America.