This one goes to Cherokee voters, who decided in this year’s election to look back to… The Cherokee Boys Club, which operates buses for Cherokee Central Schools, is certified to work on the company’s diesel buses and will soon be adding electric bus maintenance to its repertoire. EBCI Air Quality Program Supervisor Katie Tiger, who spearheaded the tribe’s application, credits the Cherokee Boys Club’s existing relationship with Thomas Built Buses and specifically Service Manager Donnie Owl for that outcome. Nine other jurisdictions also received grant funding for bus purchases through the program, but Cherokee is the first to receive a vehicle. The grant completely covered the $360,000 price tag for the bus as well as $45,000 for the charger. Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen following allegations that the company equipped cars in model years 2009-2016 with computer software designed to cheat on federal emissions tests. The Cherokees have always tried to live at one with nature, and to protect what we have so generously been given.”Ĭonstructed by High Point-based Thomas Built Buses, the new vehicle was purchased through grant funds from North Carolina’s Volkswagen Emissions Settlement - the state’s piece of a massive settlement between the U.S. “The Cherokee Boys Club Incorporated is excited to enter a new threshold of environmental technology that will reduce the carbon footprint in our beautiful mountains. “Has anybody ever thought about how far we’ve come, to have an electric school bus?” Cherokee Boys Club General Manager Greg Owle said during the event March 15, as recorded by WLOS.

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