Posted on 03/17/2025 5:29:16 PM PDT by george76
The electric buses in question were made by a company called Proterra, which went bankrupt two years ago..
A city in Washington is selling nearly half of its electric bus fleet following reliability issues and difficulty getting replacement parts.
The Everett City Council voted earlier this week to sell nine of the electric buses, of which only four are in service right now, because of reliability issues, including critical sensors and components that have been failing since they went into service. The city is now looking to purchase retrofitted diesel buses so there are no gaps in service.
According to KOMO News, Everett Transit operates 42 fixed-route buses and 29 paratransit vans across its fleet and has been replacing its diesel buses with electric ones to reduce emissions.
On Wednesday, the Everett City Council voted to spend more than $2 million of Everett Transit funds to purchase older diesel buses that have been retrofitted and upgraded. Per the Everett Herald, Everett Transit’s diesel and hybrid buses currently use R99 diesel, which is made from vegetable oils and animal fats.
The electric buses were made by a company called Proterra, which went bankrupt two years ago. Assets of the company were sold, making it harder to get spare parts. The buses cost over $9 million when the city bought them in 2017 and 2019, using mostly state and federal grants. Diesel buses would have cost approximately half that amount. Proterra was repeatedly praised by the Biden administration as the United States' key to dominating the EV field on a global scale.
Everett Transit has 10 other electric buses made by a different company that have been operating reliably. The city still plans on converting to an all-electric fleet over time.
In Oct. 2022, during a trip to Seattle, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a White House initiative to electrify the nation’s school buses. However, it was revealed that in nearby Kent, WA, all 3 of the district’s electric school buses were out of service.
Who would be stupid enough to buy them?
They'll be lucky if they get 5 cents on the dollar.
Mostly likely the next you hear about this will be in five years, when local TV news does a story about how these electric busses are decaying in a government-owned field somewhere, dripping toxic chemicals into the ground.
Who would be stupid enough to buy them?
The government is mandating schools use them...so many problems and the costs are absurd. Municipalities are buying them...aka...as the good sheep.
Jackson, Wyoming, Teton County Fall Back on Diesel Fleet After None of Its Electric Buses Work..
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Paint them up into 2028 campaign busses for the democrats. Stage one every five miles coast to coast, so they can actually cross the country using electric vehicles. There are thousands of them just sitting in every municipality storage lot collecting dust and bird flu poop. Grants were given. Bribes received. Virtues signaled. That’s success leftist style.
If you have to buy an Electric Bus, it should be Tesla. Obviously, the technology is far superior over their competitors.
which half, the ones that work or the ones that don’t?
Socialism’s endless supply of “five years” plans.
Transit’s diesel and hybrid buses currently use R99 diesel, which is made from vegetable oils and animal fats.
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Can you render students (the ones opposing trans) for fuel?
“Affordabe Electric Bussing”
“They’ll be lucky if they get 5 cents on the dollar.”
The MSM conveniently ignores this.
“vegetable oils and animal fats”
Produced by mechanisms that are lubricated by, and powered by, petroleum products.
“Who would be stupid enough to buy them?”
School districts in North Dakota. Yes, ND, a cold place with snow on roads taking more power and needing heaters powered by the batteries to keep the kids warm. I know of two schools that did it.
They apparently got grants to buy them. Trump stopped the grants, now Trump is a bad guy. It does not matter if the electric bus company went out of business, it’s still Trump’s fault.
This is mind numbing stupidity. It has to be someones fault, certainly not their own, so just blame Trump, everyone else does.
they need to strip all the parts they can and then just recycle them.
but the past state Facist governor and future democrat presidential nominee mandated stuff like this, and even wanted battery operated ferries which did not work even after billions of dollars
What did the electric buses and all the special equipment, tools, etc cost? How much did they get for the “sold” buses? What was the loss? Doesn’t any of these idiots test drive a program to determine results match goals?
“Diesel buses would have cost approximately half that amount. Proterra was repeatedly praised by the Biden administration as the United States’ key to dominating the EV field on a global scale.” ‘Biden administration’ pretty much tells me all I need to know.
“I bet there were federal subsidies involved.”
And payoffs, lots of payoffs. Smells of Hussein’s Solyndra.
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