the previous year. In November 2019, orders for new electric buses had outpaced manufacturing capacity. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act included $2.5 billion in funding for electric school buses, to be distributed over five years. By June 2022, there were commitments to 12,275 electric school buses in 38 states. A 2022 study by National Grid and Hitachi Energy indicates that installing charging infrastructure for fleet electrification will require location-specific upgrades to the US electrical grid. Cities using electric buses include: Anaheim, CA Atlanta, GA (at Emory University) Cambridge, MA (with the 71, 72, 73, and some 77 busses to and from Harvard Square) Chattanooga, TN – CARTA Downtown Electric Shuttle Colorado Springs, CO Dallas, TX Dayton, OH Denver, CO – RDT Free MallRide Frederick, MD Greenville, SC Gulfport, MS, with Mississippi's first electric bus in 2019 Hampton, VA Indianapolis, IN Ithaca, NY Lexington, KY Los Angeles, CA Louisville, KY Miami Beach, FL Mobile, AL Nashville, TN New Haven, CT New York, NY Pomona, CA Portland, ME, received funding for Maine's first electric buses, operational 2021 Portland, OR, introduced on line 62 Philadelphia, PA Providence, Rhode Island The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority RIPTA is currently testing 3 electric buses on various routes around Providence. Reno, NV Santa Barbara, CA San Antonio, TX San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA, where electric trolleybuses are already commonplace on most SF Muni routes. Seattle, WA, which has a trolleybus network of its own. Seneca, SC Stockton, CA Tallahassee, FL Worcester, MA Wichita, KS California Since 2000, the California Air Resources Board has had a Fleet Rule for Transit Agencies, which requires transit agencies to reduce emissions. In 2018 it issued the Innovative Clean Transit rule, which requires all new transit buses purchased after 2029 to be zero-emissions buses. Long Beach, California and the Antelope Valley Transit Authority charge some of their buses on special wireless charging pads located along bus routes. By 2019, more than 200 e-buses were in service in California. Several hundred more e-buses for California were in backlogged orders. Total operating cost per mile NREL publishes zero-emission bus evaluation results from various commercial operators. NREL published following total operating cost per mile: with County Connection, for June 2017 through May 2018, for an 8-vehicle diesel bus fleet, the total operating cost per mile was $0.84; for a 4-vehicle electric bus fleet, $1.11; with Long Beach Transit, for 2018, for