Posted on 11/08/2023 1:46:25 PM PST by lowbridge
Electric vehicles sure do seem safe and effective. Or am I mixing my propaganda?
According to social media user Xian Ke, a Google-operated electric bus suffered a power loss on Monday morning while attempting to scale one of San Francisco’s many hills. The out-of-control bus then rolled down the hill and crashed into nine vehicles.
From the video, it appeared that the bus had driven two vehicles onto a wide sidewalk. One of the vehicles looked wedged between a tree and a concrete or metal pole.
The side of the gray bus proudly featured the words “100% Battery Electric.”
Ke explained that the video and incident description came from a friend.
“Some local journalists need to be on this: ‘A google bus lost its power while going up the hill and roll back and hit 9 cars this morning outside of my place’ (Castro district, SF). Video from my friend below,” Ke posted.
The California Bay Area news outlet KTVU reported that the crash resulted in one hospitalization and multiple damaged vehicles.
According to that same report, however, the crash’s cause “remains under investigation.” Indeed, “[n]either the SFPD nor Google explained what caused the collision.”
Fancy that. Neither Google nor the police would confirm what an eyewitness reported: The electric bus lost power. Good thing the bus did not write an anti-white manifesto and then murder Christians. In that case, we would not know about it until the bus’s manifesto leaked seven months later.
Even the KTVU story seemed subtly calculated to protect the EV narrative. In the first line of that story, the word “electric” appeared in quotation marks, as if that part of the story somehow remained in doubt.
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Electric brakes?
A Google bus? Does it come with Google browsers and Internet in every seat? Did they lose the Internet as well?
Trolley’s are electric...right?
Next time, at least go uphill from a bunch of illegals. Be constructive for cryin out loud
Sorry, I can only laugh reading stories like this.
Yes, but they do not run on batteries.
Trolleys don’t run on their own power. Like subways, the get their power externally with overhead cables or electrified rails.
Not these, which are actually "cable cars." They grip a moving cable in a groove in the street which pulls them along. But I guess the cable motion is electric.
Clang clang clang went the trolley,
Ding ding ding went the bell,
Ow, damn, s--t went the people it ran over...
I'll hazard a guess that this has nothing to do with battery power and everything to do with bad engineering, bad operation, or bad maintenance. Or all three.
ahhhh....got it...
These same people expect you to willingly climb into an electric airplane.
smh.
the passengers needed to pedal faster
We used to LOL ROFL watching ICE cars doing exact same thing in city of Portland, OR after 3 inch snowfall. I worked 37 years in Chicago, driving 1 hour each way and never slid on major roads. That was because Chicago uses road salt like crazy. Environmental wacko’s on west coast do not use salt. They use rock pebbles instead. Not anywhere as effective as salt. And cracks in windshields is big problem. I never had my windshield cracked in Chicago. In Northwest, it was 3 times.
My God, we are soooo screwed.
EVs are an unmitigated colossal failure in every aspect. The new Edsel bound for obscurity. This narrative is unsustainable and the media just keep covering up the stuff that doesn’t fit, until it does.
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