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THE CROTON CHRONICLE------School district transportation personnel report problems with electric school buses, including excess battery draining in winter and limited charging capacity at the depot.
The December 3 meeting of Croton's Sustainability Committee discussed the experiences with our first purchased electric school bus after more than a year of service.
MICHAEL BALTER
DEC 12, 2023
The December 3 meeting of Croton’s Sustainability Committee had a full agenda (see here for the minutes of the meeting) but the last topic concerned issues with our school district’s electric buses. Here is that segment of the minutes:
The December 3 meeting of Croton's Sustainability Committee discussed the experiences with our first purchased electric school bus after more than a year of service.
MICHAEL BALTER
DEC 12, 2023
The December 3 meeting of Croton’s Sustainability Committee had a full agenda (see here for the minutes of the meeting) but the last topic concerned issues with our school district’s electric buses. Here is that segment of the minutes:
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You know what ticks me off, These problems were talked about and ignored well before the purchase was made. I remember a resident who cited chapter and verse about the issues with these buses.
ReplyDeleteYou have expressed problems with ev busses (all known (see Chicago problems)and not new) yet Croton still wants to buy more EV busses? Good money after bad? Wappingers schools have 250 busses. To charge that many Central Hudson gas and electric said a power substation would need to be built at a cost of approximately $30,000,000. Does this make sense? There are about 45,000 school busses in New York State. Hochul mandates all EV busses. Is this even remotely possible? Just the busses alone would be $14billion. Then add untold billions in electric charging stations and required updates to electric supply (additional high tension lines and substations). And... Oh yeah installing diesel heaters ? Liberalism is a mental disorder
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