The technology changes, the incompetence remains the same.
Posted on 11/19/2024 11:17:53 PM PST by CFW
Austin, Texas, planned to transition all its city buses to electric, but the ambitious climate-friendly goal has come to a screeching halt.
The Austin Monitor reports that 46 new electric buses – costing around $1 million each – will be in storage for at least a year due to lack of charging infrastructure to keep them running all day. The buses were manufactured by now-bankrupt Proterra, which has left city transit districts across the country with fleets of inoperable buses.
Proterra was acquired by Phoenix Motor Inc., which the Monitor reports is struggling to service warranties and repair technical issues.
The city’s transit board appropriated $255 million to buy 197 electric buses, some of which were manufactured by Minnesota-based New Flyer of America. In July, KUT News reported that Austin’s transit officials were beginning to realize that their ambitious e-bus plan was crumbling.
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You hate to laugh at the outcome that most critical thinking people expected, but......no wait....I think this is hilarious. So, I'm LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Well, you know what they say in the Mexican Marines.
Turn them into housing.
Fools and their money will be parted.
And we have a lot of fools in this nation. As mentioned in the article, quite a number of (mostly liberal) cities across the nation bought into the entire “EV buses are the future of public transportation” scam. And I’m sure federal tax dollars supplemented the purchase of these buses.
Now they are stuck with very expensive buses that do not work as advertised, for which they do not have sufficient charging capabilities, and which can’t be repaired when mechanical problems arise. These are very expensive pavement weights which will cost even more money to place in storage.
It’s a great waste of tax dollars. Of course that is par for the course in cities such as Austin, Texas.
Keeping Austin weird. Isn’t that sort of one of their slogans?
They’re in for another big surprise if they let those batteries just sit for a year unused and uncharged.
“They’re in for another big surprise if they let those batteries just sit for a year unused and uncharged.”
You’re correct. I didn’t think of that issue. Degrading batteries are going to be a safety issue no matter where the buses are stored. Within a year we will probably be seeing large fires from electric bus storage facilities.
Biden/Harris took money from Medicare and gave it to green initiatives. I wonder if this fuster cluck is part of that jackassery.
‘Keep Austin Weird’ is a big ripoff of WAY before ‘Keep Portland Weird’
What a bunch of low IQ administrators we have running this basic program. They cannot manage simple supply and demand of a simple basic commodity.
All the internet souces I looked at say Austin was first, and Portland copied Austin.
Austin would pretty much dominate the internet first with weird CA IT immigrants doncha think?
AND who was really weird first? (if you don’t know then you don’t know)
They had to build a whole damn building here in Upstate New York cuz they wouldn’t start in the cold in the outside facility buses have ALWAYS been housed in.
Fools and their money will be parted.
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Also, fuels and the money (needed to buy them) will be parted.
Not mentioned (carefully) or calculated into all E-vehicle ranges: Acceleration caused tremendous current draw from the power source. Repeated acceleration and stopping, such as city driving, is the heaviest load possible on a battery power source.
I am pretty sure Austin did not pay $46 million for these buses, but instead got a grant from Biden.
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