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Posted on 07/17/2021 7:38:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is one of the deep-blue cities that’s been priding itself in leading the charge against climate change for years now. Back in 2016, they decided to establish a position as an early adopter of electric vehicle technology on a large scale to reduce their carbon footprint.
The city purchased 25 electric buses from a company called Protera at a staggering price tag of nearly one million dollars apiece and put them into operation. But barely four years later, every one of the buses had been pulled from service and is deemed unusable. What went so horribly wrong to produce such a result? As the Free Beacon reports this week, just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
More than two dozen electric Proterra buses first unveiled by the city of Philadelphia in 2016 are already out of operation, according to a WHYY investigation.
The entire fleet of Proterra buses was removed from the roads by SEPTA, the city’s transit authority, in February 2020 due to both structural and logistical problems—the weight of the powerful battery was cracking the vehicles’ chassis, and the battery life was insufficient for the city’s bus routes. The city raised the issues with Proterra, which failed to adequately address the city’s concerns.
The city paid $24 million for the 25 new Proterra buses, subsidized in part by a $2.6 million federal grant.
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Literally, SEPTA could have provided limousine services to every single passenger and it would have been cheaper.
It's their intentions that matter.
the weight of the powerful battery was cracking the vehicles’ chassis, and the battery life was insufficient for the city’s bus routes.
It’s Electric!!! It seems that every single time Leftists crow about EV’s/ Wind/Solar, etc...the end result is a total disaster. Yet, they never learn from past mistakes. They just keep pushing on. Moving from one boondoggle to the next.
After all, it’s not like they’re spending their own money.
All of them were repainted with psychedelic colors and had new bus drivers in tie dyed outfits who drove them all to the New Summer of Love. San Francisco, Oregon, Washington.
They saw the Pacific Ocean and, like Neal Cassidy to Jack Kerouac, said “We can’t drive any farther. There’s no more land.”
In protest, Philly elected China Jao?
The batteries endured some kind of Acid Test?
Every American city should follow Philly’s lead, and try to improve upon the splendid electric bus idea.
Good Call.
https://www.proterra.com/vehicles/zx5-electric-bus/
They think electricity is MAGIC!
After reading extensively about South African governance this past week - its incredibly wasteful welfare state, its one party, socialist government, its corruption and patronage networks, its soul-crushing lack of incentive, its violence - I realized places like Philadelphia and Chicago are really not so different at all from South Africa.
Philadelphia is run by the residents.
The average IQ of african Americans is what, 80?
Imagine joy of the electric bus salesmen!
Did any of them catch fire while charging? Now that would be a Volt to remember.
The Boston area had electric buses that ran off an overhead catenary.
No stinkin’ batteries involved.
In a word: government.
All were a failure.
Facts and reality are difficult to argue with.
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