By: Diane Benjamin
See this story: https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/01/30/peoria-public-schools-is-expecting-15-electric-buses/?outputType=amp
Quotes:
Peoria Public Schools District 150 has received almost $6 million in federal grants to add 15 electric school buses to its fleet.
PPS Transportation Director Josh Collins says the grant will cover the cost of all 15 buses and a small portion of the infrastructure required for charging stations.
The district will have to pay the rest, which includes a backup generator and solar panels to offset the additional power draw the electric vehicles will need.
I wonder why the story doesn’t say who the District is getting the buses from?
Electric buses are more expensive than diesel, the school district wouldn’t be buying them without free money. What does that teach the kids? Government in DC can buy your decisions? Deficit spending is fine as long as you get your piece?
Electric school buses have the same problems Connect Transit buses do. Temperature affects charging and battery life. Super fast chargers might be able to charge a bus in an hour, other chargers can take 13 hours.
DC is trying to create demand. Three school bus companies are having trouble getting customers, see this story. One is doing applications for school districts: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/ev-school-bus-rollout-off-to-slow-start-despite-billion-dollar-subsidies
First Student is mentioned in the story toward the bottom.
Interesting quote from the story:
Grants were awarded for electric transit buses across the country too. Proterra got the bucks and then went bankrupt.
Stay tuned for electric bus taxpayer waste 2.0.
(FYI: Taxpayers are nothing more to DC than a social experiment they can fleece.)
Imagine a bus full of children and the bus suddenly stops, and won’t start again. Imagine the electric buses won’t start in the morning and kids standing at bus stops don’t get picked up. Peoria Public Schools must not like their students very much. They’re willing to risk their lives.
It’s 20 below windchill and the bus is packed with children and all of a sudden it stops. This could be a real issue with the bus. If it was me I’d start taking my children to school in winter in Peoria because it could happen.
And what is the definition of insanity?