Kansas Pulls Electric School Buses for Safety Reasons
Electric vehicles are not just excessively expensive and bad for the environment. They are also a safety hazard — and not only because they spontaneously burst into flames (and people get locked inside them).
From Kansas:
A Kansas school has stopped using its electric school buses out of an abundance of caution after reports of the buses losing steering and braking, posing a threat to student safety.
Guess who paid for the buses? That’s right: you did. Federal funding was used to purchase them from Lion Electric.
Kansas was not the first state to have problems with the buses:
In May 2024, the Winthrop school district in Maine reported it took four of the Lion Electric school buses out of commission after a bus suddenly stopped working while driving. Another superintendent in Maine reported the buses can have critical battery failures, blown compressors or loss of power.
Despite the US taxpayer money flushed down this Canadian company,
In its Q3 2024 financial report, Lion Electric reported it had nearly $500 million in debt and liabilities. In December 2024, the company filed for creditor protection under the Canadian Companies Creditor’s Arrangement Act. The company also announced it would seek recognition of those proceedings in the USA under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code.
All’s well that end well. Liberal virtue was successfully signaled. No doubt the climate appreciates the gesture.
The Washington Free Beacon reported the Biden administration had awarded Lion Electric nearly $160 million to produce electric school buses.
Our money was flushed away righteously, because until they started setting fire to them in an attempt to intimidate Elon Musk, liberals regarded electric vehicles as a means of saving life on earth from the existential threat of harmless carbon emissions.
On a tip from Steve T.
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