Batteries are a safety-critical and the most expensive component for electric buses (EBs). Monitoring their condition, or the state of health (SoH), is crucial for ensuring the reliability of EB operation. However, EBs come in many models and variants, including different mechanical configurations, and deploy to operate under various conditions. Developing new degradation models for each combination of settings and faults quickly becomes challenging due to the unavailability of data for novel conditions and the low evidence for less popular vehicle populations. Therefore, building machine learning models that can generalize to new and unseen settings becomes a vital challenge for practical deployment. This study aims to develop and evaluate feature selection methods for robust machine learning models that allow estimating the SoH of batteries across various settings of EB configuration and usage. Building on our previous work, we propose two approaches, a genetic algorithm for domain invariant features (GADIF) and causal discovery for selecting invariant features (CDIF). Both aim to select features that are invariant across multiple domains. While GADIF utilizes a specific fitness function encompassing both task performance and domain shift, the CDIF identifies pairwise causal relations between features and selects the common causes of the target variable across domains. Experimental results confirm that selecting only invariant features leads to a better generalization of machine learning models to unseen domains. The contribution of this work comprises the two novel invariant feature selection methods, their evaluation on real-world EBs data, and a comparison against state-of-the-art invariant feature selection methods. Moreover, we analyze how the selected features vary under different settings. © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors.