AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- West Aurora School District 129's motto is "go big or go home."

While some school districts have brought in one or two electric buses on as an experiment, West Aurora has brought in 27 of them: the most in the area and one-third of their fleet.

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The first thing you notice about the electric school bus is what you don't hear: engine noise. A low humming noise is all you might hear as the bus goes down the road. It makes it easier for driver Luther Somerville to hear what's going on inside the bus, too: kids beware.

"I hear a lot more now, hear 'em better. Before with the engine going, you could hear but you couldn't understand," Somerville said.

District leaders started looking at electric buses three years a

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