School official laments electric buses cost ‘5X more’ and are riddled with ‘performance issues’

[PeteS in CA]

School official laments electric buses cost ‘5X more’ and are riddled with ‘performance issues’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/school-electric-buses-cost-more-performance-issues

One Michigan school official admitted his district’s move to using electric buses was less than the government has touted it to be.

Emile Lauzzana, the environmental sustainability director of Michigan’s fourth-largest school district, recently told the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education that the district’s electric bus fleet has had “a lot of downtime and performance issues.”
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“We’ve been learning a lot about this technology,” Lauzzana also said. “Electric buses are approximately five times more expensive than regular buses, and the electrical infrastructure, which was originally estimated to be only about $50,000, give or take, for those four buses ended up being more like $200,000."

Lauzzana explained the district attempted to utilize "Vehicle to Grid" interconnection, which helps push energy back to the grid when buses are not being used, but that the “technology was not working.”

“I will say that I have a number of colleagues in different states who are facing similar challenges,” he added, noting the differences between electric cars versus buses. ...

OK, what educrat was so utterly ignorant as to not realize that all-electric busses would perform terribly in cold weather?!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Get woke go broke.

We need one for green.

[Fishrrman]

Most of the school buses I've seen around here are using propane instead of diesel. They run very clean...

[Smokin Joe]

Most of the school buses I've seen around here are using propane instead of diesel. They run very clean...

Propane is good down to about 30 below. From there, it doesn't vaporize so well. We warmed up our dual fuel (propane/gasoline) pickups on gas for a bit before we'd switch them over to propane in the wintertime, back in the '70s/80s. (Company trucks)