"You Just Won't Believe the Electric Bus Story Out of Edmonton".
The litany of cities run by virtue-signaling dimwits throwing away big dollars on electric bus fleets that don’t work grew longer this week up in Canuck country, in the beautiful Canadian city of Edmonton.
There, the local newspaper, the Edmonton Journal, reports about the broken-down bus fleet in a story headlined, “More than half of Edmonton's $60-million electric bus fleet not roadworthy.”
EVs are great. Unless you need to drive them more than, oh... what is their actual range?
ReplyDeleteCan't ever be sure because it depends... goes down when it's really hot. Or really cold. Or you have to run accessories such as heating or aircon (see also really hot or cold, above) or negotiate hilly terrain.
But... on the plus side, they are very very expensive, so they've got that going for them. Which is nice.
One in San Francisco recently lost power and rolled backwards down a hilly street and the small fleet in Jackson Hole Wyoming had to switch them out for old diesel busses.
ReplyDeleteAnd just wait a few years, when the winter road salt starts to affect those batteries in the same way Florida flooding did, and they start to catch fire.
Wait til the road salt, snow, and ice gets ahold of them. Keep the fire department's number on speed, and the fire extinguishers at the ready. Oh, and get the hot dogs, popcorn, and ingredients for smores ready.
ReplyDeleteHe has a misleading headline.
ReplyDeleteI clicked thinking electric buses actually worked, not failed as we expect.