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  • Liberal Texas city Austin parks its 46 new e-buses due to inadequate charging infrastructure

    11/20/2024 7:25:20 AM PST · by Twotone · 16 replies
    Just the News ^ | November 19, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    Austin, Texas, planned to transition all its city buses to electric, but the ambitious climate-friendly goal has come to a screeching halt. Remaining Time -0:48 By Kevin Killough Published: November 19, 2024 1:07pm Article Dig Deeper Austin, Texas, planned to transition all its city buses to electric, but the ambitious climate-friendly goal has come to a screeching halt. Recommended for you The Austin Monitor reports that 46 new electric buses – costing around $1 million each – will be in storage for at least a year due to lack of charging infrastructure to keep them running all day. The buses...
  • Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here's why

    01/29/2024 10:42:10 AM PST · by george76 · 52 replies
    FOX Business ^ | January 29, 2024 | Breck Dumas
    Cities coast-to-coast grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed .. Between the federal government, states and municipalities, untold billions in taxpayer dollars have been spent adding electric buses to transit fleets across the U.S. in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. However, cities from coast-to-coast are grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed, are too expensive to fix, or they have scrapped their electric fleets altogether. Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, recently expressed frustration that three of the five e-buses the city purchased for millions in 2018 are now sitting idle due to a combination of software issues,...