Posted on 03/08/2010 7:39:24 AM PST by Thebaddog
The Chicago Transit Authority has received a $1.5 million federal grant from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to construct electrified vehicle stalls that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and unnecessary fuel consumption.
The stalls will deliver electrical power for up to 80 vehicles and provide services such as heating and air-conditioning to vehicles that would otherwise be left idling during overnight cleaning, said a press release from Sen. Dick Durbin's office. The electricity would also help to reduce diesel consumption and emissions from parked buses in Chicago and suburban areas.
"The funding announced...will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Chicago," Durbin said to the Chicago Sun-Times. "As more and more people are choosing to leave their cars at home for their daily commute, helping ensure that public transit is not only affordable and reliable, but also environmentally friendly is the right thing to do."
You can’t buy an electrical car in liberal Northern California since the last dealer dropped out of the program.
These are climate-controlled parking spaces for buses, so the driver doesn’t have to leave the bus running to stay warm (or cool) as he sleeps on the job. It’s a Chicago thing...
Sounds like a fancy new bus barn to me. They’re just using the “green” line of bull to justify it.
Sounds like a fancy new bus barn to me. They’re just using the “green” line of bull to justify it.
It's only $18,750 per car.
Has anyone thought about running additional copper (wire) from the street to the building?
How about copper from the power plant to the building?
What's the capacity of the power plant?
If the current plants cannot handle the load, what are the plans to build additional power plants?
Will the new plants be coal, natural gas, or nukes?
Where will they be located?
How long will it take to get them in service?
When they get the fraction distribution worked out, Sneakyman Inc. will allow High Pressure Fuel Injection and other great engine management systems off the shelf and onto the assembly line.
Vehicles will get great fleet ave. MPG and be clean as a whistle using the greatest energy storage medium ever created.
Electrified Vehicle Stalls
Most correct part of headline.
Why would anyone leave a vehicle running while it is being cleaned?
I cannot imagine that a public bus could be cleaned in less than 15 minutes at the very least. This is an example of how cavalier the employees in the public sector treat the expenses aid for by the private taxpayers.
Tell me to only dive a vehicle that gets 30 +++ MPG, then let busses nationwide stay running while being cleaned overnight.
Typical lack of common sense in the various levels of government.
I can see the headline now, Obama saves or creates 150,000 new jobs in the green industry ...
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