Comment on Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here's why

whodatdair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another company just bought Proterra, so hopefully any of their busses will be up and running again shortly. Still not great that they’d be out of service so soon after being built though. There are less moving parts in an electric vehicle so you have to wonder how they screwed this up.

  source

  • whodatdair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s good news - such shit that a badly managed company can leave taxpayers holding the bag like that.

    Idk tho, busses get the shit beat out of them… I’ve known some bus mechanics and most of what they do is suspension/breaks and like aircon type shit, the drivetrain is only a part of the job.

    Just speculating wildly for fun - I wonder if it’s just that they didn’t design with off the shelf parts so once they went under nobody could get their specific suspension bits or whatever the hell got busted.

    I do agree that software issues so quickly does indicate some fuckery, though. Also the fact that they went under lmao

    source

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure most of the bus was parts off the shelf. The electronics to power the motors, which probably failed due to vibrations are not off the shelf equipment.

      source
  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as mechanics the difference between an electric and combustion is the engine. Engines are fairly reliable so from a matience standpoint there’s not a lot of work on them. Everything else is more or less the same. The problem is a new company comes in and doesn’t have the experience to build a bus as durably.

    source