Hope he updated his resume.
Yeah, they learned it doesn't work, costs a lot, and generally sucks.
“Emile Lauzzana” : See Schaudenfraude.
Cut the government employee salaries to pay for the greenenergy cost differences and the additional problems. The government employees will quickly embrace Internal Combustion Engines.
Just wait until they go to replace those batteries in the failed busses.
Gee.....who saw that coming 🤷
“zero-emission electric school buses”
No such thing.
These are most likely coal powered electric busses.
Duh! Didn’t they research prior to purchase?
Localities love to get their federal capital money—and then quickly burn it many times over in operating expenses.
They never learn.
As I recall, conservatives were warning of these problems at the time schools and towns started purchasing those electric buses. No one paid attention. They didn’t consider all the possibilities, including the fact that charges seldom lasted as long as advertised, or that heating and cooling would be a problem. There are other issues.
For instance, schools that normally use buses to transport their sports teams to out of town trips are now in a quandary. If the school they are traveling to does not have charging stations for buses available, then they risk not having sufficient power to return the student home.
I dealt with this issue first-hand at my place of employment prior to retirement. I had often reserved the use of an institutional bus to transport groups of 30 or so to a town 100 miles away. Before I retired, I received a notice that since they had switched to all electric buses that service would no longer be available. Those buses would not make the round trip without re-charging and since re-charging may not always be available, they would not allow those buses to be reserved any longer. I notified my replacement that she would have to deal with that problem. I was out of there!
“Despite the buses’ frustrating performance, Lauzzana affirmed Ann Arbor Public Schools would remain committed to the use of electric buses “as incentives became available.””
In other words, if the federal government (tax payers) will pay them to do so.
This was all knowable before the money was spent. So why has it come as a surprise? Because many people no longer reason, rather, they FEEL. In other words they’re idiots.
I hope this isn’t a fatal blow to Kamala and her love for electric school buses ... on second thought ...
Ha ha ha ha ha
And if they catch on fire - they burn for hours... days.
But the ONLY thing that matters is how do these electric buses make ‘the elites’ feel about themselves? And it makes them feel good.
So it doesn’t matter if the buses are reliable or dangerous of cost more to own and maintain... Not an issue. “Elites’ are saving Motha Earf...
One week ago, I had a conversation with an EV enthusiast. I tried to explain, that there is a weight limit per square foot of tire print on pavement (given the pavement and road bed strength).
An 18 wheeler loaded with product, might be 81,000 lbs gross, loaded and limited by the road, to that weight.
If you include a 10,000 battery pack, that means the 18 wheeler with trailer (”load-carrier”: 31,000 lbs empty, 81,000 lbs loaded, 50,000 lbs product), will carry 10,000 lbs less of product.
That means, adding another truck to the road, for every 5 such load-carriers.
From the road perspective, the road is seeing additional tons of “battery footprints” with the transition to EV.
Looked him up...
Emile Lauzzana (He/Him)
Executive Director, Environmental Sustainability at Ann Arbor Public Schools
He’s a true Gorebull believer who by his tone, is seeing the light of the practical application of the zero carbon initiatives.
I would bet a million dollars that he still is convinced carbon emitted by humans is warming the planet.
Their faith in Al Gore and the imaginary government/crony festival of graft is insatiable and justified in the soft confines of Liberal, brainwashed minds.
Actually they are cheaper if you can get the cost of buying, maintaining, and operating them with outside grants and funding. However, if the outside funding ends you are in deep Adam Schiff.