17 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses”
Don’t worry; they will find another electric bus supplier who believes in kickbacks.
Yeah, they’ll never admit they managed to dodge a bullet. Gotta waste billions on virtue signalling.
How much money did BC Transit pay to Proterra before it’s bankruptcy?
Yes, I also was wondering if a deposit/down payment was provided after the contract was signed.
Maybe Edmonton can sell the seasonal use EV busses it has to BC. Not get much use from them here.
Wouldn’t the contract with BC for 10 busses be listed as an ASSET in the Bankruptcy filing? Yet the court said the new owner could cancel that contract. That only means ONE thing … that the new company needs to charge $$$ far MORE $$$ for their electric busses. $$$ Pay up, BC taxpayers!! Pay up!!
And prepare to pay even MORE $$$ as these busses break down and cannot be repaired for moths if not years. Let alone spontaneously combust
“repaired for moths if not years”
I would be thinking more like moth balls…but that would be just reading into your thoughts.
My Freudian slip is showing
YES, and I believe that BC Transit have subsidized contracts for EV emergency vehicles too, plus the costs of “saving the environment” of large out-of-service EVs are tallied and buried.
That will work well too, until the 1st fiery bus crash or implosion (likely abroad first) is reported and buried.
Battery electric vehicles, a 19th century technology brought back from the junkyard of failures.
Today’s EVs are not much different those of the 1890’s and early 1900’s except for “cool” whiz bang features. Although batteries have improved, they still don’t have the energy density to compete with hydrocarbon fuelled ICE vehicles.
Advocating the widespread use of EVs is simply illogical mental gymnastics.
Just because a 1920s era Detroit Electric could go 220 miles on a single charge, doesn’t make a comparison with a Hyundai Ioniq 5 SE SR RWD 19-in (2024) a far comparison…
Or so I’ve been told by EV advocates repeatedly…
How rich is the salesman for battery powered tow trucks in Ottawa?
Can’t wait for Calgary’s electric bus fleet to show up. (sarc)
Ottawa has a fleet of them coming.
I, as a tax slave, am not optimistic.
As a typical driver swerving like an idiot to miss all the pot-holes, I am not happy with even heavier buses turning the streets into a Ukrainian farm field.
I’d complain but the mayor and most councillors have drank the Climate Cult Cool-aid.
We don’t need them in Ottawa either. I think city councillors should pay a little more attention to potholes and a little less to Planet Saving; they just aren’t that omnipotent.
Don’t worry, the magical thinking of the Greentard NDP will provide all excuses necessary to fulfill their Utopian dreams. As long as it’s funded by OPM, NO PROBLEM!
Why not put a yoke and harness on Lizzie May? She can pull one and maybe lose 200lbs. OMG, it just hit me, she is a carbon sink. That’s why so many lefties are obese, they are trying to save the planet. Can’t explain the ugly though.
Don’t worry; they will find another electric bus supplier who believes in kickbacks.
Yeah, they’ll never admit they managed to dodge a bullet. Gotta waste billions on virtue signalling.
How much money did BC Transit pay to Proterra before it’s bankruptcy?
Yes, I also was wondering if a deposit/down payment was provided after the contract was signed.
Maybe Edmonton can sell the seasonal use EV busses it has to BC. Not get much use from them here.
Wouldn’t the contract with BC for 10 busses be listed as an ASSET in the Bankruptcy filing? Yet the court said the new owner could cancel that contract. That only means ONE thing … that the new company needs to charge $$$ far MORE $$$ for their electric busses. $$$ Pay up, BC taxpayers!! Pay up!!
And prepare to pay even MORE $$$ as these busses break down and cannot be repaired for moths if not years. Let alone spontaneously combust
“repaired for moths if not years”
I would be thinking more like moth balls…but that would be just reading into your thoughts.
My Freudian slip is showing
YES, and I believe that BC Transit have subsidized contracts for EV emergency vehicles too, plus the costs of “saving the environment” of large out-of-service EVs are tallied and buried.
That will work well too, until the 1st fiery bus crash or implosion (likely abroad first) is reported and buried.
Battery electric vehicles, a 19th century technology brought back from the junkyard of failures.
Today’s EVs are not much different those of the 1890’s and early 1900’s except for “cool” whiz bang features. Although batteries have improved, they still don’t have the energy density to compete with hydrocarbon fuelled ICE vehicles.
Advocating the widespread use of EVs is simply illogical mental gymnastics.
Just because a 1920s era Detroit Electric could go 220 miles on a single charge, doesn’t make a comparison with a Hyundai Ioniq 5 SE SR RWD 19-in (2024) a far comparison…
Or so I’ve been told by EV advocates repeatedly…
How rich is the salesman for battery powered tow trucks in Ottawa?
Can’t wait for Calgary’s electric bus fleet to show up. (sarc)
Ottawa has a fleet of them coming.
I, as a tax slave, am not optimistic.
As a typical driver swerving like an idiot to miss all the pot-holes, I am not happy with even heavier buses turning the streets into a Ukrainian farm field.
I’d complain but the mayor and most councillors have drank the Climate Cult Cool-aid.
We don’t need them in Ottawa either. I think city councillors should pay a little more attention to potholes and a little less to Planet Saving; they just aren’t that omnipotent.
Don’t worry, the magical thinking of the Greentard NDP will provide all excuses necessary to fulfill their Utopian dreams. As long as it’s funded by OPM, NO PROBLEM!
Why not put a yoke and harness on Lizzie May? She can pull one and maybe lose 200lbs. OMG, it just hit me, she is a carbon sink. That’s why so many lefties are obese, they are trying to save the planet. Can’t explain the ugly though.