Despite Buying a ‘Lemon,’ Juneau, Alaska, Is Not Done with Electric Buses. This is one lemon you can’t make lemonade out of. Perhaps lemon-flavored popsicles?
The Alaskan capital announced in 2021 that it would add a 40-foot, all-electric passenger bus to its fleet, but the zero-emission model has recurring mechanical problems that force Capital Transit to park the bus in the garage for weeks on end.
In frigid weather, though, the 440-kilowatt hour (kWh) battery’s 210-mile range dropped to 100 miles, and the battery took longer to charge. Capital Transit superintendent Rich Ross told APM that the faulty harness and other issues aren’t putting Juneau’s transit authority off electric buses.
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Why can't people get this? EVs do not work in cold climes. They don't work that great in warm places, but they don't work at all in cold places. It's like a religion for these people. They won't listen to reason. Man-made batteries suck! Simple as that! They are inefficient and undependable. They require chemical reactions to produce power. Dangerous, inefficient chemical reactions. There is a much better battery available, built by God instead of by man: it's called hydrocarbons... and He laced the planet with them so they would be freely available to us.
It was -21 in Bridgeport, CA the other night. I wonder if any Teslas got stuck? Bwahahahaha!