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Posted on 12/23/2025 11:34:23 AM PST by Morgana
Most of us have moved on from the global warming hoax — but not the moonbats running New York, unfortunately for kids.
Via Fox Business:
Parents in western New York are raising alarms over cold rides and breakdowns after officials mandated that all school bus purchases must be electric by 2027.
Kids come home frozen in the Lake Shore Central School District. Already nearly half of its buses are electric. Running the heat drains their batteries.
Several parents told the outlet that they heard of at least one instance of the buses breaking down, in addition to the heating issues.
Kids can sit in these rolling ice lockers for a half hour and more, even when they don’t break down. Hopefully global warming will kick in soon and alleviate their misery.
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ICE (that is internal combustion engine) vs real ice. I suppose we could throw in some Immigration and Customs Enforcement too. :)
True.
Big time.
Come on, they are living in a liberal utopia so they need to toughen up for what is to came.
The buses appear to be made by Blue Bird with an ideal range of either 120 miles or 150 miles.
Greatest Fraud in history by Al Gore and Enron.
During the rare cold snaps in which the high here is in the teens, I've tested our EV. So-called "fast" charging is way slow (a normal 10-15 minute charge took over 45 minutes). Not a problem for daily driving because home charging handles daily driving anyway; I just wanted to test what long trip charging would be like in bitter cold. And instead of getting 3.9 miles/kWh on average I got about 2.8 miles/kWh (normal local speed driving). So there are some real issues with charging speed and range in bitter cold. But, again, those are for long trips and not local daily driving.
Before you all start with the “you voted for it” crap, understand this is not any where near blue NYC. And the Demoncrats running the state have MANDATED that school districts replace their ICE powered school busses with electric busses. Which of course won’t work. This stupidity is happening in districts all over NY State now. And it is only going to get worse unless someone in power changes the law.
-PJ
It is. And Albany is elected by primarily NYC.
Chicago had a polar vortex either last winter or the year before. It was fast charging Armageddon. The battery has to be preconditioned before it will even start to take a charge. I watched a YouTube video of a Wisconsin Tesla owner that left his Tesla parked at a supercharging site for 24 hours and then tried to charge it. It took about a hour or so before the battery would even take a charge and then about 90 minutes to charge it. Temp was something like -8F..
“Unless they purchased a battery capacity that’s ...”
That’s the key. The juice required for various operating conditions can be determined. There’s the outside temperature, the bus’s insulation, the amount of time the buses are hauling kids, and the electrical needs to propel the bus. Battery capacity is determined from those factors.
Well, that is something from nothing. How about some numbers?
I have no doubt electric school busses break down but in our district, the old type yellow limos are also occasionally seen sitting, empty, on the side of the road.
As to heat reducing battery charge life, in the desert southwest, AC does the same thing. Kids are cooking.
Ha. Would make RFK, Jr. and the others proud they were getting exercise, finally.
Calling Captain Obvious to the rescue of New Yorkers and other slack jawed retards.
Heck- we froze on gas busses in the 70’s and 80’s- there was maybe one small heater about 1/2 way- but it never worked well, and it was always occupied no matter what time you boarded the bus- the rest of us froze- and we went to school in temps well below zero in winters- some days 30 below or more-
Isn’t the virtue signaling keeping anyone warm?
“A lot of The parents likely supported this nonsense.”
Some maybe. I grew up about 10 miles from there and it’s a pretty down-to-earth conservative area. At least it used to be.
At least you had busses.
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