HOPEFULLY they’ll also get rid of their Diesel Buses, so the kids there can FINALLY learn to get to school the way virtually all of us here did, in our day (either walking or taking their bicycles).
They will not be able to afford the maintenance and in ten years they will have bricks.
Here’s yet another story where in 2 years, we’ll read about 38 buses sitting in a parking lot somewhere with no spare parts, the manufacturer out of business, and the interns complaining about losing school credits for the program that went kablooey.
Porterville is in the middle of almost-nowhere.
$14 Million Dollars is enough to have every student in the district picked up and brought home by an Uber for 12 years, their entire education...
“Once the electric buses arrive, the diesel buses will be dismantled and parts will be recycled.”
Great plan! What happens when all the electric busses fail like they have in so many other places? Will the convert their bus route maps to walking maps?
Is this to handle the power blackouts I read about in California?
I predict within one year the program will be close to folding with no avenue for recovery because they destroyed what was capable, the diesel buses.
Time will tell.
From NY Post 8/24 article:
Bay Area-based electric bus and battery maker Proterra filed for Chapter 11, with CEO Gareth Joyce citing “various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to efficiently scale.”
The EV firm, which sold more than 1,300 electric buses to public transit systems in the US and Canada, was valued at $1.6 billion when Biden, 80, took office in January 2021 — but closed with a market value of $362 million, according to Reuters.
Two years, more than half of the buses will be dead.
Every one of them will be decommissioned within six months.