Posted on 12/04/2021 10:13:52 AM PST by rktman
Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined forces on Thursday to promote Proterra, a Burlingame, California-based electric bus company that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm previously sat on the board of and held stock in, which garnered her $1.6 million when she finally divested them 157 days after her nomination.
This happened during an event at Charlotte Area Transit System in Charlotte, North Carolina that was meant to tout the “marquee legislation” in President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda — the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package — from two of Biden’s highest-profile cabinet members.
While at the event, not only were the Proterra busses used as a backdrop but for their event, but Harris even sat in the driver’s seat and honked the horn with Buttigieg in the back and sang, “The wheels on the bus go round and round,” which an NBC-affiliated television station, WYFF, caught on camera. A pool reporter with the vice president reported Harris called the busses “very user-friendly” and was amazed over how quick the breaks work on the busses.
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What a team! Out there mouthing away!
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the city of Philadelphia, which spent $24 million for the 25 new Proterra buses, had to sideline the entire fleet by the city's transit authority in February of last year, “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 report noted that the city brought the issues to Proterra, but they failed to address the concerns. Additionally, in Duluth, Minnesota, the buses were also taken off of the road since the bus's brakes, which the viceroyalty president promoted on Thursday, could not handle the city's hills.
Politicians never cease to amaze me!
I see whay you did there. 😏
I sorta recalled the entire fleet sidelined and some involvement from Jenny jenny.
Its battery pack consists of 1,000 D cells.
Non rechargeable of course, but with a range of a few hundred yards.
Replacement batteries available per special govt contract at only $100 per cell. Funds go to the “HO GOES MOTOR CO”.
That duo can both be referred to with the nickname “heels up”
Not only could the battery in Proterra busses not hold enough power for Philadelphia routes, but the batteries were so heavy that they cracked the bus chassis.
Federal Democrats unsurprisingly seem to be unconstitutionally bailing out energy companies that either don't have the money to refine their products, and/or are possibly badly managed by owners/managers who support Democratic elite.
Corrections, insights welcome.
btt
Breaks are a problem.....
BRAKES re necessary.
Can ANYONE spell anymore???
Or is that class also ‘graded on the curve?’
That pink bunny rushed away from the inquiring news media and put a fedora hat over his face. That is distancing.
I can see their campaign slogan now. Elect the Whore and the Homo for a more diverse, amoral America
Pete and his Bend Over Better push.
The casual, open corruption of our rulers is astounding and threatens our republic.
Don’t doubt these people would sell out the US to protect their Chinese interests.
#3 When mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom bought Chinese electric buses with the same result. The same Chinese bus company when as governor he stole $1.4 billion to buy masks. He did not get the money from the state by normal means.
No masks showed up and no one but him and the democrat party knows what happened to the $1.4 billion
Personally I think it was his buy in to run for president.
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