• Firstgroup’s First Student completed phase one of an electric school bus project for New York City’s Education Department.
• First Student’s First Charge modular charging system cut infrastructure construction costs by 13% in Brooklyn and Queens deployments.
• Plans call for 40 additional electric school buses for New York City, extending First Student’s electrification rollout.
• First Student operated about 490 electric school buses in the 2025-26 school year, with more than 550 on order.

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