You can Ven Diagram that.
Isn't it grand that one can just wave a magic ($$-taxpayers-$$) wand and.....poof! DOUBLE the amount of funding.
These electric busses are soon going to join the wind farms in the ash heap of history.
You can Ven Diagram that.
I wonder what will be the range of battery-powered refrigerated semis.
School buses.
George Wallace in 1968 used to denounce the cowardly adults safely in the distance who “used little school children” to take the risks of being bused to potentially dangerous confrontations in schools while adults watched. True, the adult faceoffs were often avoided (lunch counter service denied and other battles followed by marches and arrests) while children continued to be bused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bI-Cb8ADUI
He won 9,901,118 popular votes (out of a total of 73,199,998)— 13.53% of votes cast nationally—carried five states - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi - won 45 electoral votes plus one vote from a faithless elector, and came fairly close to receiving enough votes to throw the election to the House.
In 1968, Wallace pledged that “If some anarchist lies down in front of my automobile, it will be the last automobile he will ever lie down in front of” and asserted that the only four letter words that hippies did not know were “w-o-r-k” and “s-o-a-p.”
no problemo. just pritn up a new batch of money.
problem solved.
Why is DeSantis participating in this bullsh!t ?
He doesn’t need to do this. It is discretionary.
Back around five years ago....new E-bus was delivered to Trier, Germany...to be part of their future operations (the first one). This was in mid-winter.
On the very first day of operation, they had a ceremony and the driver left the depot. About 30 minutes later, he calls back...the meter indicates less than one-third power left, and he was returning to the depot.
What they determined was that to keep the interior warm (in winter)...it was using just as much power to heat, as to keep the bus moving. So they had to lessen the heat in the bus...to get any real use out of it.
What safety features are there for children to escape if the bus spontaneously bursts into flames?
This man ends any argument on the subject
There’s nowhere near enough power on the grid to convert the U.S. truck fleet to battery electric.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCoAsPtgRKg&pp=ygUaRWxlY3RyaWMgdHJ1Y2tzIHBvd2VyIGdyaWQ%3D
“ One fleet tried to electrify just 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois. Local officials shut those plans down, saying that would draw more electricity than is needed to power the entire city.
Another California company tried to electrify 12 forklifts. Not trucks, but forklifts. Local power utilities told them that’s not possible.”
So a tow truck would need to be 72,000 pounds. Add a 36,000 pound bus to that and you have 108,000 pounds total. Several states would have to increase their maximum weight limits in order to allow this combination.
And wear and tear on the roads? I'm sure some Anthony Fauci type "scientist" on a government payroll somewhere would be able to explain how this would not affect road breakdown.
Another thing to consider is they may not be able to run on roads in the north when frost laws are in effect due to the extra weight.
A few years ago the Bloomington, Minnesota school district went all in on using biodiesel, a mixture of petroleum based diesel with plant derived oils, in their school busses. On a bitter cold day, school had to called off as many of these busses stalled as their biodiesel turned to gel. I expect similar problem with electric busses.
I pity the children who will be trapped in one of these electric boondoggles for several hours per day.
How many children must die before the powers that be realize the errors of their ways?