ST. CLOUD, Minn. – For Vice President Kamala Harris, it was a perfect photo-opp. She stepped off a New Flyer electric bus inside the New Flyer factory at St. Cloud. “This is the future,” she said. Harris had flown to St. Cloud as part of a nationl Biden cabinet blitz to underscore points from his State of the Union message the previous evening, including commitments to clean vehicles and to create jobs in the process. Harris noted bipartisan support f or a $5 billion Biden project to put thousands of new electric buses on the streets for public transit.

At bus plant. Harris alights from a a gleaming electric bus at the St. Cloud plant that makes them.