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.
Looks like a depiction of the Final (Transit) Solution.
Supposedly Lincoln said people often call progress, what is nothing more than change.
Libs must insist on change because they think that is progress.
a mostly peaceful event.
I was in a DC parking garage last week. Two levels down they had some charging stations.
Just stupid.
Unless you manually start your engine with a hand crank, all cars for decades have had motors in them. You know, the starter motor. It runs off the battery, and cranks the engine for you.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics will eat that power up!.....................
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But those laws were invented by old, white, Europeans, for the purpose of oppressing the poor downtrodden.
To be properly called progress, something must render an improvement.
You serfs vill ride diz bus and like it!
My 1956 Triumph TR-3 had a hand crank in the trunk, to start up when the battery went flat. I miss that car!
But he is right. They often are referred to as motors. In the old days, and I do mean OLD, prior to Kettering’s Cadillac starter system of 1912, they were often called “motor cars” and there was a magazine called “Motor Age”. It did not mean just electric. And of course, Motor Trend.
This is something of an exclusive categorization issue.
An engine is always a motor, but a motor is not necessarily an engine.
True story:
When the Obamanoids first into power, they had a meeting with energy CEOs to discuss future energy policy.
At the meeting, they ere told that electric cars ere going to be the future of US energy policy.
One CEO said that would not work because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
An Obamanoid retorted, “Who the hell wrote that law? We’ll get it changed!”.......................................
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