Editor’s Note: Many municipalities and states invested in electric school buses in an effort to meet various self-imposed climate commitments. As detailed previously by various mainstream media outlets, electric buses have proven poor performance, break down early and often, take scarce resources from more viable, proven diesel and gasoline busses, and are a threat to public and public school kids safety.
Recently, WPLG news, from Miami and Fort Lauderdale, ran the story below highlighting the costly, boondoggle that virtue signaling electric bus purchases have proven to be. As the story detail, inexplicably, some politicians, faced with the reality of the high cost and poor performance of electric school buses, still embrace them as the future of public transit.
