KCHS School Bus Café

What is the Coffee Shop Project? The Knox County R-I School district applied for the Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Environmental Mitigation Trust (VW Trust) back in March of 2020 for the purchase of a 100% Electric Bus. The VW Trust funds are designed to help meet the Missouri overall plan goal of reducing emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) by taking old diesel buses out of service. The old diesel bus taken out of service must be disabled by creating a 3-inch diameter hole in the engine block and cutting both rails of the chassis in half between the axels of the bus. Once the bus was disabled, the Knox County R-I High School Business students and Industrial Tech students repurposed the bus and turn it into a coffee shop that now runs as an in- house business module for a real life business experience.

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