> none of the eight electric buses in its fleet are running <
Then don’t think of them as buses. Remove the batteries. Then reclassify them as small migrant hotels.
As the old saying goes, if life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Million bucks a copy. Is that 10 times what a diesel would cost? Maybey 7 times? Diesel buses that would give you a million miles and work cold or hot weather.
Pretty sure Jackson is quite cold in the winter & that would make it a very unwise place to utilize electric buses. Hope the responsible folks in the city have since fired the idiots who made the decision to purchase the buses.