Posted on 07/29/2022 7:21:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hamden FD, Facebook photo of the burning electric bus in CT Connecticut’s governor Ned Lamont and Senator Chris Murphy spent $25.7 million on a project to replace buses with electric buses. Twelve were delivered, and one went ablaze just sitting, parked, engine turned off, and with no one in it. The federal taxpayers fully paid for the project.
According to CT Insider, they received a dozen with ten more on the way, but they’re all pulled from service over the bus going ablaze due to a lithium battery fire. It’s “out of an abundance of caution,” said the spokesperson. Nothing to see here.
According to the Hamden Fire Department, the bus was unoccupied. It was just sitting there, CT Insider reported.
According to CT Transit spokesperson Josh Rickman, the buses won’t return until after an investigation.
“Lithium-ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,” said the Hamden Fire Department. They received an $11.4 million federal grant of federal taxpayer money for the project. They also got two other federal taxpayer grants, one for $7.4 million and another for $6.7 million. It will allegedly get the US off oil. EVs do require electricity which relies on coal in the US. In other words, people in Nebraska or Texas helped to pay for these buses, which cost twice as much as gas buses, which don’t go ablaze for no reason. We support EVs but they should not be rushed before they are ready for market. We can’t afford this.
The buses are New Flyers made in Minnesota.
I hope they got the warrantee.
“...one went ablaze just sitting, parked, engine turned off...”
Bad writing/editing.
Electric busses/autos don’t have ‘engines’ — they are propelled by motors.
Thanks for posting.
Some one challenged me that almost everything is a fashion industrey.
Liberals/progressives want change for the sake of change.
Conservatives are not against change, prefer the well tested, but will change for a reason.
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
Second, the conservative adheres to custom, convention, and continuity. It is old custom that enables people to live together peaceably; the destroyers of custom demolish more than they know or desire. It is through convention—a word much abused in our time—that we contrive to avoid perpetual disputes about rights and duties: law at base is a body of conventions. Continuity is the means of linking generation to generation; it matters as much for society as it does for the individual; without it, life is meaningless. When successful revolutionaries have effaced old customs, derided old conventions, and broken the continuity of social institutions—why, presently they discover the necessity of establishing fresh customs, conventions, and continuity; but that process is painful and slow; and the new social order that eventually emerges may be much inferior to the old order that radicals overthrew in their zeal for the Earthly Paradise.
Conservatives are champions of custom, convention, and continuity because they prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t know. Order and justice and freedom, they believe, are the artificial products of a long social experience, the result of centuries of trial and reflection and sacrifice. Thus the body social is a kind of spiritual corporation, comparable to the church; it may even be called a community of souls. Human society is no machine, to be treated mechanically. The continuity, the life-blood, of a society must not be interrupted. Burke’s reminder of the necessity for prudent change is in the mind of the conservative. But necessary change, conservatives argue, ought to be gradual and discriminatory, never unfixing old interests at once.
“they’re all pulled from service over the bus going ablaze due to a lithium battery fire. It’s “out of an abundance of caution,” said the spokesperson. Nothing to see here”
Nothing to see here.......yeah, except a big smoking hole in the asphalt.
The feds interference with the Free market looks something like this...
Allowing the feds to continue their unconstitutional interference with the free market as well as all other aspects of life leaves one stunned - something like this...
Put those batteries on a trailer, with a long tongue.
Tow them behind the bus.
Run power cords to the bus motor.
All Public Employee’s should be required to use public mass transit for all Travel, including to and from work.
The bus burning is a perfect metaphor for this green new deal insanity.
Just wait, next time, the bus exploding will be filled with people who will all likely die at the hands of these idiots.
“All Public Employee’s should be required to use public mass transit for all Travel, including to and from work”
Why?
DC has huge voltage drops across relatively short distances....................
I’ll bet that one fire did more damage to the climate than the entire bus fleet would’ve saved.
Rename them New Fryers...
No doubt. Not to mention the negative impact to the environment from the manufacture of the batteries.
Ya gotta wonder what that did to the “ozone hole”. Savin’ da planet for da churldren.
OK
Convert to AC on the trailer, convert back at the bus.
Do you like my Science?
I am learning from Green experts.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics will eat that power up!.....................
New bus roasting on an open fire.........
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