Take a Ride on Jouley, the Electric School Bus

We're bringing you along for a ride on Jouley, the Thomas electric school bus powered by Proterra. Our Vice President of Parts & Service, Brady Childress, will tell you all about the Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley. Learn about her operations, mechanics, charging, and what makes her different than traditional school buses.

[@joshuar9938]

Crazy to think in 8 years Thomas went from Hybrid buses to all-electric.

[@arkivejay]

Thomas isnt all ectric

[@joshuar9938]

@@arkivejay This bus is

[@melissahoffman4687]

I love the freight liner looks. :)

[@sendink9140]

This is an awesome bus or I’ll call it an EVB. I’m “getting” sold on electric vehicles but not overnight because it’s going to financially hurt people and the economy. I believe the transition period is something we really need to keep a close eye on to make sure it’s as painless as possible, and not political ! Now with that said this bus is a very sensible answer to just that. First off it’s an awesome school bus, it almost makes me want to quit my job as a Boeing Aircraft Mechanic to go drive a EVB school bus. The design, the mechanical craftsmanship and overall just a really cool looking new school bus, I feel this is the most prefect application of an electric vehicle I’ve seen till date. We have all had that school bus diesel fuel exhaust blast into our face at the bus stop or car windows, heck it even comes in through the heater vents on some of the older cars. Cost wise to fuel those bus fleets have to be astronomical Nation wide. I think this bus is awesome on so many levels economically, environmentally, public and employee health wise not to mention shedding a positive light on the EV market to the general public like myself who are on the fence on the switch from oil to electric. I still do not feel totally electric is ready yet. I also feel it could never be 100% for a multitude set of reasons one being we can not charge these EVs without oil right now. Windmills and Hydro alone will not be able to handle this country’s grid load on those two alone just yet but, I do feel this electric bus is an area that could and should be fully electric, and it would be for the best for a number of factual obvious reasons. It’s an absolute perfect application for a fully electric vehicle not to mention the bus itself is a beauty. It’s a good looking bus and well made like all the Thomas lines of busses. It will be a change for the better for the health of our drivers and children. I’m not a bus drivers but would love to drive this bus, it’s totally awesome and kudos to the engineers at Thomas for this one, I think you guys knocked it out of the park with this EVB. I do feel we are all living in a very interesting and historical time in our country and if we keep having companies like Thomas and their engineers moving us gently and innovationally through this very controversial transition, I feel some day we will be “all for one and one for all” instead of “all for a few and not for all”… Overall Thomas definitely sold me on this awesome bus. I truly would love to drive it and check it out. Great job guys! 👍👍👍

[@ingodwetrustdellaware-inc8322]

I love ❤ the aLL N Parking brake.. awesome 👌

[@somerandomguy-mother]

Yeah crazy to think when u have kids one day they aren’t going to know what an actual car sounded like before.

[@itsgunther]

Is there a backup or Reserve for when you are doing routes and getting low but need an extra 15-20miles or so?? I would hope there’s a mode for when you’re reaching the peak and need a little bit more

[@Jeepin290]

Wish we got these instead of all bluebirds.

[@derekobidowski3301]

they should make it with more batteries and more range if these busses are taken on field trips rather than the normal routes the busses are designed for.

[@choffman9915]

True. I'm sure for the time being, schools will select a bunch of electric buses and then keep a few of their old gas, cng, propane, or diesel powered buses for longer trips and to have replacements if/when the electric ones need to go in for maintenance.

[@jaysonthetrainmasterprofil221]

I seen C2 buses with black grill and I think I rode the handicap bus with a black grill and it has interior interior lights and turning signal and brake lights

[@superbrownsheep3777]

Hey, at least you get to listen to the Tyre pitch noise.

[@jasoncheng451]

Looks like the C2 Electric bus moves pretty fast. The older C2 diesel buses move slow.

[@Robshamsterteam]

It makes so much noise on the inside everything’s creaking in clattering. Do you think maybe they could put like some some rubber grommets everywhere so that it doesn’t make so much noise

[@teripowers463]

All vehicles will be going electric for the miles as well as commercial

[@MS9Studios]

It kinda sounds like an RC car

[@railfanjames7699]

It’s quite shocking how the industry is turning from hybrid to all electric no pun intended of course

[@saftlinerhdx5151]

Hey, is this bus 677 that your driving? I live in waynesboro

[@melissahoffman4687]

I do wish all electric school buses had solar panels, and a generator that way the batteries can get a free charge from the sun, and a generator back up on cloudy, snowy, and rainy days.

[@crossdressingthug3443]

Does this company pay decent?

[@BusMaster99]

As cool as this bus is, I really don't care for electronic parking brakes on air brake buses. I will miss the satisfaction of pulling the traditional knob to set the parking brake.

[@paulwilliams286]

These busses are not fossel fuel free or pollution free. They must be plugged in to charge. Where does that electric come from? The manufacturing process includes digging into the Earth for the various materials used for the batteries. How long do the batteries last? Maybe 10 years? What happens to all that toxic material when it comes time to scrap? Where does the new materials come from? I don:t like electric vehicals. To much false hype. To much info not talked about!

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

I agree but they only work in a perfect world.

[@guildrich]

Eh, who cares. As long as it doesn't have a tailpipe, we're good! 😅

[@RMB42]

Nah, it's magic! Electricity and school buses materialize out of thin air! No fossil fuels required! It's not like they're just moving fossil fuels and emissions from one place to another or anything. Let's ignore all of the fossil fuels that go into building, shipping, and servicing electric vehicles and their batteries, which have petroleum as a direct ingredient and as a requirement to produce and deliver it, such as metals, paints, tires, insulation, plastics, glass, etc. In the real world,, everything requires fossil fuels along the entire supply line and production path.

[@Project_29]

3:00

[@100realtorah3]

What if the bus driver we get to plug the bus in and they took an off for that day and the substitute bus driver for the next day what then electric bus.

[@gradientgamer5480]

Thomas tries to compete with IC here

[@kennysbusdrawings]

This is the only good electric school bus. All the other ones have their own design, which looks awful I think.

[@tommynickels4570]

Lion Electric has a beautiful fleet of buses with 250-mile range and increasing each year.

[@kennysbusdrawings]

@@tommynickels4570 did I ask though

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

@@tommynickels4570 lion buses look ugly and cheap.

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

Imo

[@Vladimir82623]

Regular Icce’s are good but the electric ones are bad

[@100realtorah3]

Electric school buses is garbage why did I see that taking kids on the field trip and it's winter time and the bus driver don't want to go into a sporting event the engine runs to make heat that drains the batteries red flag number one 120 miles we have field trips and you should go to Detroit Michigan from Ohio that's 179 MI that school bus won't make it.

[@RMB42]

Just like many owners of electric cars still have at least one ICE vehicle in the household to do the jobs an electric can't do, school districts will still need to have old fashioned buses in the fleet to do what electric buses can't do.

[@ArianasMoments]

all electric and dashboard and radio looks old they could at least have added navigation

[@russellwilliams3209]

Blue bird electric bus is so much better lol

[@monicareyes7229]

I Like This New Bus