Dortmund Germany Delays Transition To Electric Buses Due To High Costs, Will Purchase Diesel Buses

[rangerrebew]

Dortmund Germany Delays Transition To Electric Buses Due To High Costs, Will Purchase Diesel Buses
By P Gosselin on 26. October 2024

The hype about green energies being the future is quickly becoming a thing of the past as all the Utopian promises made are not coming true as they clash against reality.

The green movement is turning out to be nothing but a silly wet-dream LSD fantasy.

The city of Dortmund, Germany is finding out that electric buses are significantly more expensive than diesel buses, even with government subsidies, reports Blackout News here.

Ordering more diesel buses

Due to the high costs, DSW21, a German transit company, is now delaying the full transition to an electric fleet and plans to continue purchasing some diesel buses alongside electric ones.

The plan was to replace the diesel buses with electric vehicles and to operate a largely emission-free fleet by 2035, but that’s looking extremely unlikely.

https://notrickszone.com/2024/10/26/dortmund-germany-delays-transition-to-electric-buses-due-to-high-costs-will-purchase-diesel-buses/

[rangerrebew]

Even Hitler, no economic genius, understood the VW had to be affordable before people would buy them.

[Fishrrman]

I'll reckon that the problems are not just initial cost, but low availability (due to mechanical/electrical problems) once they go into service.

It's been more than 50 years since I was in Deutschland, but even back then they DID have "electric-powered street transportation" that was highly reliable and well-patronized. They were called "streetcars". Although some of those being built today under the newfangled moniker of "light rail" are a bit too complicated for their own good.

For routes that are a bit "too-light" for rail-based streetcars, they can put up overhead wires and use another reliable vehicle called a "trolley bus".

[Smokin Joe]

I'll reckon that the problems are not just initial cost, but low availability (due to mechanical/electrical problems) once they go into service.

It's been more than 50 years since I was in Deutschland, but even back then they DID have "electric-powered street transportation" that was highly reliable and well-patronized. They were called "streetcars". Although some of those being built today under the newfangled moniker of "light rail" are a bit too complicated for their own good.

For routes that are a bit "too-light" for rail-based streetcars, they can put up overhead wires and use another reliable vehicle called a "trolley bus".

They used to have those in Washington DC. I never rode on one but I remember seeing them.

Now the survivors are museum pieces. https://montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/national-capital-trolley-museum/

[GtHawk]

They used to have those in Washington DC. I never rode on one but I remember seeing them.

Now the survivors are museum pieces. https://montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/national-capital-trolley-museum/

we had the Red Cars in Los Angeles, I have memories of riding them with my mother when she went shopping in Huntington Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, when I was a little kid.

[DefiantMassRINO]

What a shame.  Who could have predicted this?