Biden-favored EV bus maker Proterra goes
bust and leaves a trail of broken and
irreparable buses
Just the News,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Skinnydip,
12/6/2023 9:57:53 AM
Proterra, which President Joe Biden once said was "making me look good," sold hundreds of electric buses to municipalities across North America. Every transit district Just The News spoke with, except one, has inoperable buses awaiting repairs. Across the country, towns and cities of various sizes envisioned an electrified public transit system that could shuttle residents with vehicles that produced no carbon-filled exhaust.
Many of those communities purchased buses from Silicon Valley-based Proterra, which was able to produce 550 buses over its 19-year existence before it went bankrupt in August.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2023 10:07:56 AM (No. 1611603)
Predictable and predicted by many. Of course, all the top managers have HUGE salaries and guarantees of payments, regardless of the condition of the company, I'm sure. They always make sure that THEY get paid.
EVs are losers. Stick to golf carts where the expected range is 1 or 2 miles, there are no heater or AC and they always go to the same parking spot to recharge overnight. Used as automobiles, buses or trucks, EVs can't do what is expected. Diesel buses work great, have long range, are affordable to purchase and have been reliable for decades.
Stop with this stupid "green" scam.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/6/2023 10:13:02 AM (No. 1611606)
FTA: 'Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s energy secretary, had served on the company’s board. In May 2021, before assuming the lead at the Department of Energy, Granholm sold all her Proterra holdings, providing her with net capital gains of $1.6 million'
Need I say more?.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/6/2023 10:15:11 AM (No. 1611608)
Solyndra 2.0
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/6/2023 10:26:30 AM (No. 1611620)
I can smell Solyndra emanating from Proterra. EV buses go bust. Bidenomics at work. Biden's fubaring of America continues.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2023 10:27:26 AM (No. 1611622)
Re #2, clearly Granholm is a crook, funneled money to her former company....which collapsed anyway.
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Indeed, Proterra buses powered by Solyndra electricity: "The future, Mr. Gittes!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/6/2023 10:53:38 AM (No. 1611665)
Actually a perfect metaphor of the poopy-pants admin.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/6/2023 11:02:57 AM (No. 1611677)
Think of how they expect to recycle these vehicles, and dispose of the batteries used by the vehicles too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 12/6/2023 11:44:49 AM (No. 1611711)
Suckered big time, sadly with taxpayer's money. I hear Steve Miller's "Take the Money and Run" playing in the background.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 12/6/2023 1:27:18 PM (No. 1611808)
We've seen this train wreck before during the Obozo term.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
padiva 12/6/2023 1:36:24 PM (No. 1611821)
The broken down buses?????
They make great homes for the illegals!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 12/6/2023 1:50:29 PM (No. 1611834)
Pursuant to 1, in 1982 the prestigious German magazine 'Der Stern' ran as its cover story: Der Umweltfreundliche Diesel' , that is: 'The Environmentally friendly Diesel' Then they went nuts for Green.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 12/7/2023 5:58:34 AM (No. 1612184)
The libs will ignore this and continue to push for green energy.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq 12/7/2023 6:00:53 AM (No. 1612187)
Doterra would have been a better investment...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/7/2023 6:55:53 AM (No. 1612204)
These conveyances are absolutely worthless, and should never have been built. Government planning! Fly one bus up to Alaska's Stampede Trail near Healy, north of Mt. McKinley, to replace the famous "142" that was taken away. Take the batteries out first so it won't burn.
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Sounds just like Brandon's administration.