Green? What’s green about building and disposing of tons of batteries? What charges the batteries, unicorn poop?
A good cold Chicago Winter morning will kill those buses. What a sack of Durbin. BTW, one of my lib friends owns a Tesla and admitted the other day that the car dies if it isn’t plugged in all night. Sounds like an old Iphone.
Starting back in the 1890s, they were building electric trolley cars. Those things never wore out. They went through ice and snow. They were destroyed by a government/business conspiracy. Ford Motor Co., Standard Oil, Firestone Tires. Over a period of 20-some years, they destroyed trolley lines across the U.S. In the end, they were found guilty and fined ONE DOLLAR.
Diesel would have been cheaper and 90% as “green”.
I can understand these being operated as experiments, but not as regular buses. They aren’t ready yet.
The comments at the site are interesting.
“plus about $300,000 in congestion mitigation funding”
Congestion mitigation funding?
Another government trough.
Europeans have had electric busses for decades....with overhead wires, of course.
According to the figures given for energy savings(which are questionable)it would appear to be about a break-even compared to the diesel bus in 12 yrs. However,there are other costs to be considered. If it is to be a hybrid bus,it is more complex. If it is to be all-electric,then we need to consider what the EPA is doing to the electrical generating capabilities in our country & how that affects cost of operation. Get rid of the EPA,expand our electrical generating capabilities,& solve the cold weather problems & an electric bus might make some sense.