the ongoing Proterra saga has probably set back adoption of electric buses by 20 years.
a generation’s worth of transit professionals who are traumatized by the first gen of a new technology doing what the first gen of a new technology always does (not work great)
www.local10.com/news/local/2...
After spending nearly $62 million on a fleet of troubled Proterra electric buses, Miami-Dade County has asked the federal government for permission to replace the vehicles before they reach their expe...
Nashville’s fleet of Proterra electric buses, which have been rotting in the lot for the last 5 years bc they are unusable
Can’t even be scrapped and disposed of until the end of their 12-year FTA minimum useful life benchmark bc they were purchased with federal funds
jeremiah
Tech people get angry at me when I tell them that I advise transit agencies not to buy the first version of anything.
Jarrett Walker
“Only a few years after starting service, a number of Everett Transit’s fully electric buses are set to fall by the wayside due to reliability issues and a supplier that went bankrupt. The city is set to sell nine of its battery electric buses…” www.heraldnet.com/news/everett...
The buses, built by a now-bankrupt company, had reliability issues for years. The agency’s 10 other electric buses don’t have those problems.
