Electric bus

Actually...

Albuquerque's electric buses have been out of service since December.

And you know what, Wally? We warned them

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So, you know, take a technology that is, you know, part of...

Electric vehicles are very mature, but part is using it for different applications not good.

And I think I told you the first Albuquerque Journal article I read about the electric buses said that it could run so many miles and that's how many miles that these buses had to run.

Other than the fact that when they do the how many miles they can run, it's flat.

Better bus service can't wait, said John O'Leaver, chief executive of the Transportation Authority.

Quote, so while the electric bus industry continues to mature, MTA is moving forward with CNGs to further improve service for the millions of New Yorkers who ride MTA buses every day, unquote.

So just let's be clear here.

They wanted to go zero emission with all New York City buses by 2040.

Nope, that was never going to happen.

But each one of those electric buses they bought, by the way, was $1.8 million each.

And those were for the articulated buses that bend in the middle that they use all the time in the city.

They spent $12 billion.

Yeah.

Australia's busiest airport, which is Sydney, rolls out first 50 electric buses for shuttles and airfield operations, which is really cool, which is really cool.

I'm happy to say that our area around the Northern Beaches has got electric buses now running quite regularly, which is so good to the point because I forget how fast they are.

Natural instinct is to go over, like overtake them, but you can't because they're actually quite fast.

quite quick sometimes.

Yep.

Very good.

Oh, Steve says we've got electric buses in Dubbo.

TriMet made a similar promise, but with a goal of 2050.

New York bought a bunch of electric buses, only to find out they fail regularly, and they only make it on the road about 60% of the time.

So much so that the City of New York just announced they're buying hundreds of new natural gas-powered buses.

Oh my God, fossil fuels.

Who would have thunk of it? America has that fuel in abundance, enough to last more than a hundred years.

Electricity? We already know we're running short on that.

TriMet, two years ago, bought a couple of dozen electric buses.

I figure they're going to have the same experience as New York City, if they aren't already.