We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses

28 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses”

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/hertz-is-selling-20000-used-evs-due-to-high-repair-costs/

   1. Ken Gee
      So, electricians charge (pun intended) than mechanics????

   2. Nothing says “Don’t get one” like a large car rental company’s sudden action to rid themselves of it.

      1. From what I’ve read, no one wants to rent them. Range anxiety, etc. They’re unloading the unprofitable deadwood.

   3. Who in their right mind would buy a used EV? Yikes!

      1. I’d buy that for a $1

         1. Think you’re overpaying!

2. Don’t they have cranes that will pick up a whole E bus and put it in a tank of water yet?

3. Is this part of the Chickens for KFC story? Asking for a friend.

4. I’m disappointed. You promised me an explosion. I didn’t see an explosion. All I saw was flames. I so wanted to see an explosion! Rats!
   Did I go too far?

5. Anyone in Marketing think NOVA would be a really hot name for an EV? It’s hard to believe that decades later a whole class of vehicles now exist that exceeds a Pinto’s ability of catching fire and burning uncontrollably.

   1. Perhaps they could paint flames on the buses? Camouflage!

   2. I give you the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV

      https://www.chevrolet.ca/en/electric/blazer-ev

      1. Motortrend SUV of the Year. Smh. How long until there’s EV firetrucks?

         1. IIRC Vancouver, BC has already bought one.

         2. Available now… how useful they are depends on if you splurged for the extended use upgrade which includes a CAT diesel inline 6, but they still can’t move as much water as a standard truck…

   3. Martin
      Put a 351 C, jacked up, and a good gas tank, and you have a rocket on wheels.

   4. Funny you should mention it, “No Va” in Spanish means “doesn’t go”, why the chevy with the same name was panned in Mexico, they were leery of them there!

6. Heh, I’m old enough to remember you needed terrorists to explode busses in London.

7. “The batteries on the bus go boom boom booom”

8. Did they ground (no pun intended) the whole fleet like Alaska Air and Delta?

9. Just wait until the cool kids figure out how to replicate the Wesley Snipes Demolition Man scene.

   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQIRD57lls8&pp=ygUOZGVtb2xpdGlvbiBtYW4%3D

   He’s going for the battery port!

10. Somebody scratched the battery cover and didn’t tell Dad!

    See kids! This is why you need to play nice with your toy cars!

11. Enough already BAN the FFFFFFF Flaming sparky vehicles

12. were there gigantic subsidies and rebates and tax exemptions just before gasoline power cars came into vogue?
    no you say?
    politishuns do strange things.

13. Heh, Ottawa is buying 350…

14. I cant say Im opposed to burning things.. Especially government mandated things.. But this is getting old fast.. Range anxiety to sell these EV toys will be the end of us.. Yet, they wont stop..

    1. They will if we make them.