But they can GO farther if they don't charge.
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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There are potholes in Baltimore that will swallow your car. And amazingly they are always repairing the streets..... to no avail.
Let others say what I was about to say about the US Secretary of Energy.
The thing you have to realize about the DC Metro system is that it is a patronage system. Any transportation provided is a by-product. The completed expansion to Tyson’s Corner and out to Dulles was the largest public works project in the last twenty years. Further, the Metro is expensive and unreliable with frequent breakdowns and the occasional fire.
Why? Because SEPTA SUCKS. Always has. A bunch of lazy ass union thugs with the IQ of morons.
Not sure what you are saying.
“Not going to argue your point.”
Do you mean you are going to argue against my point? Then why are you arguing against my point?
Philadelphia city council is dominated by retards elected by blacks who vote for blacks only.
Thick.
I gathered this meeting today to discuss how we could slow the mail down and yet make it more expensive.
Yes, Billy from postal carriers department.
I know let’s use electric vehicles to deliver the mail!
Wait! Billy that’s an excellent idea!!!
Illiterate.
Gov Gavin Newsom in Calif bought Chinese electric buses when he was mayor of San Francisco. They were breaking down soon after. He as gov took $1.4 billion without approval from the state legislative (stole) to buy masks from a Chinese BUS company. No masks and the money disappeared.
I’m curious who in the 44 Admin knew at Protera.
In completely unrelated news, Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan and current Secretary of Energy in the Xi puppet regime. When asked a few days ago how many barrels of oil per day the U.S. consumes, in context with the release to the Chinese of 50 million barrels from the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve), she didn’t know.
But they can GO farther if they don't charge.
So; just WHERE is this cheap fuel located?
Watt’s the problem here?
It went to a Gas Guzzlers Graveyard
Dang, I remember that episode.
You are smart,
The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States. Opened on October 6, 1935,[2] it presently comprises 15 lines, and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as Muni (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses. In San Francisco, these vehicles are also known as “trolley coaches”, a term that was the most common name for trolleybuses in the United States in the middle decades of the 20th century.
Good post on South Africa—the corruption you mentioned briefly—but it is on a scale that defies belief.
The ruling elites have so much money they can’t figure out how to spend it all....
While the masses live in poverty.
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