$20 Million....Going...Gone!
Oh Lord, give us a sign that CPS has far too much money for their failing business model:
- Less than three weeks after informing parents that general education students would not receive busing for the remainder of the academic year, Chicago Public Schools announced it would buy and operate up to 50 electric school buses over the next three years through a $20 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Thank you Lord....even though it's an EPA grant, it's still taxpayer money.
Wait, what's this? Lib-tarded National Public Radio?
The Arctic air gripping much of the U.S. put Tesla drivers in Chicago into a pickle on Monday. Many of the cars sat in long lines at Supercharger stations, their owners saying the cold sapped the electric vehicles' normal ability to charge — and keep a charge.
In some cases, tow trucks were called to move the cars, in scenes that were relayed by local TV news. The Tesla owners' plight became an emblem of the misery extreme cold is inflicting on wide sections of the U.S. (more on that below).
Is no one reading the news?
- NYC abandons electric plows;
- Duluth can't charge electric buses;
- Vermont electric buses lose 80% range in winter;
- Minnesota E-buses need charging after 75 miles;
- Hertz offloads one-third of EV fleet;
Twenty million could have educated a lot of kids....who won't be going to school next winter.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Mguy from Australia on u tube keeps up with all of this EV nonsense on a daily basis. Worth a look
Electric Vehicles do not work well in the heat or the cold.
Air conditioning takes a lot of electric battery power.
Resistance Heating takes a lot of electric battery power.
You would think electric school buses would be a great fit for the school bus model. You have a lot of school bus use in the mornings, a little in the middle of the day for kindergartners, and a lot at the end of the school day. Throw in a few field trips and some after school activities and athletic teams trips.
There is multiple windows of time to recharge every bus during the day, and all night for 12-15 hours.
They should be able to make that work.
A bigger danger is these buses randomly explode in how, rapidly exploding flames if the batteries are damaged. Can they evacuate the bus after an accident if the bus topples over on its side or facing up or down slopes? If not? A lot of children will die horrifically in fires.
Oh but electric vehicles are the greatest thing since sliced bread lol!
Every automaker rolling out all kinds of EV models. Planning to be all electric within the next 10-15 years.
Nobody wants an electric vehicle. They’re not selling like dealers had anticipated. And now we see that really cold weather is an issue for these vehicles and maybe they’re not so great and reliable.
Biden was at a presser a few months ago at a rail facility announcing we are investing in battery powered rail locomotives. I think they said they had a range of about 200 miles. That’s not much if you consider a train going to Milwaukee from Chicago is about 90 miles. Two double trips a day is not much. Some of the freight trains are over 100 cars, will they be able to pull that? And the cold diminishes the battery. Still using fossil fuel to charge the batteries. Why not just use the fossil fuel to begin with. This is all folly so China can provide the batteries to us if we are good.
As much as I'd like to bash EVs, I'm shaking my head at all the people who should have paid attention in basic high school chemistry or physics class. All batteries act like this in extreme cold, be it your EV, your iPad, flashlight, etc. It's why I wouldn't own one of the current crop unless I lived in Southern AZ or NM. Even then, EVs are problematic in extreme warm monsoon conditions near salty water. Look at the ones that became fire hazards in Fort Myers after the hurricane.
Of course, Mayor Blowjob wouldn’t be read up on these issues, even though he's supposed to be an educator. Avoiding EVs for public fleets has nothing to do with politics, just basic science. ICE vehicles just offer more usability under multiple conditions. Having a low IQ and a welfare mentality, Blowjob would accept any handout the stupid feds offer, even if it was a grant to buy a fleet of rusted used 40 year old Yugos.
The news segments with dead Teslas strewn all over the place and their smug, douchebag owners freezing their ass off waiting for a tow were absolutely priceless. I wonder what it cost these lemmings to pay a tow truck to haul their glorified golf cart around searching for a working charger.
And they want to make this shit mandatory in these leftist blue states. LOL!!!!!
Hybrid EVs may be the best option for electric vehicles.
You can use the ICE heat in the winter to keep the battery warm or warm it up before charging it up. The waste beat can also keep the passengers warm in cold temperatures, so you don't have to drain the battery. If you cannot find a working charger, the hybrid engine can keep the battery from being damaged by a complete discharge. If it's properly designed, you could be able to limp home using the engine alone.
In the Summer, the engine can drive the air conditioner and cool the battery too.
'indoctranated' a bunch of kids.
Blessing incognito.
Defund CPS!!!
Give taxpayers a break already
Retired in Texas……
Did K A M A L A have anything to do with that?
You know, she gets all hot and bothered about yellow school buses.
Stay safe Blue
It's just a matter of time before someone steals those $20M in buses or expensive parts in them and CPS reports them missing like anything else, including those 77,500+ laptops at a cost to taxpayers of $23M.
WBEZ reported CPS spent $308M on computers/software for 3 1/2 years, ending in April 2023. The average pay for a CPS tech coordinator is $68K with the minimum requirement to be one us a 2-yr degree. A school like Steinmetz HS with a 65% graduation rate has 2 Tech Coordinators at $90K and $80K salaries.
And Tech Coordinators like these two can't keep track of laptops? According to CPS, Steinmetz 2 techies couldnt find close to 700 laptops of the 2000 (at a cost of $400 each) given out to students without tracking devices during the COVID e-Learning. This while the same laptops issued to teachers had tracking devices.
No worries as CPS wasn't holding students responsible for the cost of a lost laptop until the 2022-23 school year. If a student lost one last or this school year, they're supposed to reimburse CPS the costs when they graduate, drop-out, or transfer out of CPS. Since nearly 80% of CPS students are considered low income, a majority of the reimbursement for missing laptops is and was forgiven by CPS.
Now, with all this in mind, how will CPS maintain and keep track of electric buses that don't start in extremely cold weather like the ones in Minnesota didn't and their school districts got rid of them?
CPS doesn't provide drivers for buses, outside companies do. How will CPS managed these buses with no department setup for this? Will CPS create a whole new department specifically for the electric buses and hire multiple insiders at $100K salaries to run the department, including route management? Where will CPS find drivers that can be vetted properly when there's a nationwide bus driver shortage?
What schools get the electric buses?
This has waste, disaster, and misappropriation written all over it.
Getting back to CPS e-Learning. Why didn't CPS have an e-Learning Day on Tuesday instead of calling off school due to the weather? Most Chicagoland districts did and somehow they found a way to make e-Learning work, including catholic schools like St. Patrick HS.
Is this because most CPS schools only averaged a 50% participation rate during COVID? So, an e-Learning Day is a waste of time for CPS as will the makeup day that'll be dropped into the last week of school when little to no students are in the buildings.
CPS is stupid on purpose.
Yes, for all the EV fanboys out there. Lithium batteries operate at a greatly reduced level when it's below freezing, and even worse when below zero. Another fun fact: 98% of EV owners own another ICE car. In other words, the EV is a novelty or toy. They have a gas powered car to fall back on. The EV is Not ready for prime time; especially a frigid Chgo. winter!
If you’re driving a Tesla you can afford to have it towed no pity party here most are total assholes to boot so pay the man
Tesla in big bright letters by libtard media. Of course this isn't because of Musk buying Twitter and not censoring the Truth, is it? Musk went after the Libtard Overlords,
Soros and Bernie Sanders. The media Libtard media wont go after Volt or other union made electric cars, only Musk's electric cars.
Twenty million could have educated a lot of kids....who won't be going to school next winter.
On what, how electric vehicles will save the planet, how men can have babies. Nothing that will help them in future employment.
Electric Batteries- Someone sent me this:
Lithium batteries come in may chemistry’s, most EVs use LIFePo4 batteries, they cannot be charged below freezing, it destroys that type of battery. That is probably why they will not charge.
I wouldn't put my kid on an electric school bus. Those things have been catching on fire.
Interesting trend is libs moving to places like Duluth and upper Wisconsin. Apparently it’s a common belief amongst them that they will be able to ride out the “rising temp apocalypse” they’ve been programmed to fear. They don’t understand that the destruction of fossil fuel industry will ultimately cause them to freeze to death. One of the upsides to this is that it’s making red states redder and concentrating kooks in the upper Midwest and northeast.
Imagine what will happen in cold weather, blue state shitholes when the power goes out for several days in mid January after gas heat has been banned.
Typical for dummyrats, spending money on stuff that is doomed to fail.
Whatever happened to going to your neighborhood school? We all walked to school when I was growing up. The only time we had a school bus was for field trips.
When we start watering our crops with Brawndo it's game over.
I’m baffled as to why Democrats are convinced that EVs are more environmentally friendly in their minds?! Are none of them aware of the Earth minerals that are strip mined to create these giant batteries, the fairly large amount of petroleum products used to create the actual vehicle, the increased reliance on coal and/or nuclear for the charge, the disposal of all these elements once the vehicle has lived its use, and the absolute environmental toxic dump that emits from these vehicles once they catch fire. Why are politicians forcing legislation in this direction?! Sadly, I probably already know this answer…. self enrichment.
Thanks, but no thanks. I’ve been saving my rubles for a used F150 or a Tundra someday. By then, the environmental communists will probably make it near impossible to own one.
Typical corrupt Chicago. They spend money on something everyone knows won’t work only to scrap it later when it doesn’t work. Electric does not work well in the cold you idiots! Pay attention! And when you run the heat it drains what little battery charge you have. They can also catch on fire. Is that a good idea with a bus full of little kids?
Most of the laptops ended up at E-Z pawn.DAH!
And you have this in City Hall. In her final report for 2023, Deborah Witzburg details a clerk’s office worker who allegedly pocketed cash payments; and a contractor suspected of taking more than $200,000 in debt collection fees on paid-up accounts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/1/15/24039374/six-figure-skimming-city-sticker-sales-rogue-debt-collection-inspector-general-report-witzburg-crime
Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org blog has a post with comments about this topic today. Yes, high school physics.
$400,000 a bus. This is grant money that creepy Joe is tossing out around the country. My county on the Sunshine Coast of Florida (Tampa area) is getting the same grant, dollar for dollar. $20 million for 50 buses. Although the population of my county is under a million people and the temps rarely drop under 55 degrees.
Democrats can shove all of their socialist policies on us because they steal elections and don’t have to worry about repercussions at election time. This EV push is lunacy, but then again all democrats are lunatics.
"The average pay for a CPS tech coordinator is $68K with the minimum requirement to be one us (is) a 2-yr degree."
Correction: The minimum qualifications for a CPS Tech Coordinator are as follows:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Training and Experience. Must possess a High School diploma or GED equivalent, supplemented by at least one year of experience in network maintenance. Experience in installation of basic computer hardware components is required.
Hey. We could help solve the crime problem here. Push for electric ambulances but only in "underserved" areas. Then when the bangers have a "party" electric ambulances won't get them to the hospital to sew them up...
Follow the money. I'll bet that CS'er Al Gore has got his fingers in the pie. Dead Teslas, now that's an inconvenient truth...
Your all missing the real reason C.P.S. has to buy electric school buses. On May 7 2021, J.B. Pritzker dedicated The LION ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUS COMPANY in Joliet (technically in Channahon).
On Aug. 11 2022 Pritzker and all the other Democratic big shots had another dedication for the humongous factory, and this was the building of the first Lion Electric School Bus IN JOLIET !!!(Channahon). An innocent reporter for a small ad paper asked, "I know you don't make everything like tires and windows here, but how much of this bus was made here?" Silence. Crickets. "WELL, THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESS CONFRENCE". Apparently the parts were brought down from LION's headquarters in Canada and assembled here, but a lawyer told me that assembled and built are the same thing. The third J.B. dedication was July 21, 2023 to show a shitload of built school buses. Most school districts in the country are buying a few Electrics to try out for their area. FIFTY ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES FOR A TRIAL IS INSANE! They cost 2 to 3 times the cost of fossil fuel vehicles, not counting the additional recharging infostructure. Pritzker has poured your state money into all his E.V. projects, and none of these companies can seem to break even!
It's like solyndra only with wheels. Scam after scam after scam...
CPS pisses money like a drunken sailor-boy.
Inevitable that CPS announces another stupid decision, here to "buy EV" same day Chicago headlines across nation trumpet unreliability of EV vehicles once weather temperature dip below freezing. Ice cube Teslas - zero emission, zero movement!
Blogger anymouse said...
Your all missing the real reason C.P.S. has to buy electric school buses. On May 7 2021, J.B. Pritzker dedicated The LION ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUS COMPANY in Joliet (technically in Channahon).
On Aug. 11 2022 Pritzker and all the other Democratic big shots had another dedication for the humongous factory, and this was the building of the first Lion Electric School Bus IN JOLIET !!!(Channahon). An innocent reporter for a small ad paper asked, "I know you don't make everything like tires and windows here, but how much of this bus was made here?" Silence. Crickets. "WELL, THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESS CONFRENCE". Apparently the parts were brought down from LION's headquarters in Canada and assembled here, but a lawyer told me that assembled and built are the same thing. The third J.B. dedication was July 21, 2023 to show a shitload of built school buses. Most school districts in the country are buying a few Electrics to try out for their area. FIFTY ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES FOR A TRIAL IS INSANE! They cost 2 to 3 times the cost of fossil fuel vehicles, not counting the additional recharging infostructure. Pritzker has poured your state money into all his E.V. projects, and none of these companies can seem to break even!
1/17/2024 03:30:00 PM
Why cant he use his own billions? Let him pay for this garbage, he actually thinks he will be slated for president not going to happen, not like buying the governors office more of a puzzle!
The EV scam is just a Front for digging up Tons & Tons of Lithium
Not for vehicle batteries but for Lithium Meds for blown minds on Nov. 5 & 6 2024.
Lithium Ion batteries can get damaged if they charge when its too hot or too cold. The charger and battery will not charge or accept a charge if either extreme is reached. These battery's also will loose their charge faster in cold weather. This along with the car interior heater running for the occupants reduces your range drastically. The people waiting with their cars at 20 percent charge killed their batteries running the cars heat in the cold. This is nothing new, and has been common knowledge as long as Lithium Ion batteries have been around. Oh and they can overheat causing a thermal run away. They self destruct, burn and you can't put them out, until there destruction is complete. Other than those items they are great.
OT: Water pipes send Bally’s casino plan for hotel tower along Chicago Avenue down the drain
Bally’s will have to deal city officials a revised design for its permanent Chicago casino and entertainment complex after discovering initial plans for a 35-story hotel tower could damage city water pipes on the River West site, officials said Wednesday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/17/24042144/ballys-chicago-casino-design-change
What do you expect from something touted by the fat prick governor? He probably hasn't driven a car in 10 years...Let alone is he able to fit behind the wheel.
Back in about 2007 the water reclamation district with great fanfare bought the largest order of electric vehicles for a government agency. Tiny shitbox Chinese minivans and pickups the size of a golf cart for over 20,000. Each. Couple hundred for the plants. Lots of photo ops and press conferences on how they were saving the planet . A year later they were all parked in their private scrap yard out back at the stickney plant . No press conferences. At the time they cost as much as new ford rangers or similar. They were also doing all kinds of other wasteful crap to save the planet that always failed. Not their money . Did read they were thrilled to appoint a black tranny to the head of this hidden 8 billion a year agency . I’m sure it was for the children. Political appointees are the dumbest people I have ever met .
Yugos kicked butt!
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
As with all things Chicago, it doesn't have to 'work', it has to generate FAT ENVELOPES.
Follow the money boys.
Vanecko Electric Bus Company, LLC?
Vanecko Electric Bus Chargers, LLC
Vanecko Electric Bus, Diesel Heater Retrofit, LLC
you get the picture...
Anonymous said...
OT: Water pipes send Bally’s casino plan for hotel tower along Chicago Avenue down the drain
Bally’s will have to deal city officials a revised design for its permanent Chicago casino and entertainment complex after discovering initial plans for a 35-story hotel tower could damage city water pipes on the River West site, officials said Wednesday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/17/24042144/ballys-chicago-casino-design-change
1/17/2024 11:34:00 PM
These morons in the news just basically told every wannabe terrorist who came into the country and was living in a police station lobby how to fuck up the water supply in the City...
Unbelievable.
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