Posted on 10/04/2023 10:26:30 AM PDT by Robwin
Tales of electric vehicle failures grow more numerous by the day.
According to Cowboy State Daily, a Wyoming-based news organization, Wyoming’s Teton County and the town of Jackson purchased eight electric buses, all of which have broken down and will no longer run.
The electric buses’ failure has forced Jackson and Teton County to rely on their existing fleet of 31 diesel buses.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
I understand it’s pretty windy in Wyoming....why not wind-powered buses? A few sails on the bus and it’ll be fine..............
I was a member at 3 different ski clubs in Chicago. We would go on ski trips to upper Michigan or Wisconsin. The diesel bus was ideal for a group of 45 skiers. And the bus ferried as from motel to ski place, and no parking hassles on slippery, icy, low volume parking lots. I think I have done at least 50 ski trips and enjoyed every one of them because of the bus. If I drove myself, it was 7 hour drive each way from Chicago burbs to ski area. With ski-club bus, we left on Friday after work, partied on the way to ski area, the motel was already booked by ski-club, the motel had breakfast, skied all day Saturday & Sunday, and were back in Chicago area at mid-night. No way to do this driving by yourself.
Why does a town with 10,000 people and wide open spaces need 31 buses?
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That has been my question all along.
I’m originally from small town Missouri with a population of about 20,000 and they still don’t have a single city bus. They did have a couple of independent cab drivers last I checked.
I now live about 25 miles from a city in Illinois of 100,000 and they do have a lot of city busses and it’s common to see them on their routes completely empty or with one or two passengers. I have always known that I’m subsidizing this nonsense with my taxes for the convivence of a relatively few privileged class people.
And half of that half is below zero. Jackson Hole is nature nuts and fruit loops.
Both. And add in those who are not true believers but just want control over the lives of others.
*snicker*
Wyoming barely has the budgets to buy buses and wasted so much on that EV crap.
Nobody. I remember years ago when the city of Midland Texas decided to have a city bus system. Midland has the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S. and EVERYBODY there drives a car. They city pays literally hundreds of employees to drive and maintain a system that virtually nobody uses. And yet they continue to ply money into this damn thing.
Pathetic really.
and WHY do the have said busses???
out wi the old and in wi the new... right???
they knew it was a scam and hedged their bets and kept the ICE busses maybe
It’s just plain SHOCKING! well no...not really. and thats the problem. lessons learned all through the movies “Frankenstein” to “Bride of Frankenstein” all the way to “Young Frankenstein”...IF you want real results you’ll have to use the right equipment and DYI it yourself. just a little FYI on the DIY to GID.
Jackson is a resort town like Sun Valley, Park City or Aspen. They have 10,000 full time residents, but probably 3X that many home owners who live there less than 3 months per year. And a massive seasonal influx of tourists.
Don't they have any more horses in the Cowboy State?
Teton county and Jackson Hole are solid blue. Feds gave them 80% of the money for the EV buses..
Same thing happened in Minneapolis a few years ago. The touted electric buses failed even before the first cold winter. However, in neighboring St. Paul their Fire Department has an electric fire truck, don’t worry it also has a diesel generator to actually fight fires
“Do you think there were some kickbacks influencing the decision, or just stupid people thinking they were saving the world?”
Both.
STUPID. Your virtue signalling is actually showing you to be ignorant.
Throwaway Electric Buses ?
time for a recall effort
I live in a campus town near one of the bus lines that feed directly into campus. Before Covid, the buses were packed during the morning runs when they passed my location. 3 1/2 years later, the buses are mostly empty even though the bus fare is “free” for students and employees.
I imagine most of the bus riders are for the workers that can only afford to live 40 miles away.
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