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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5597109" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-spent-1-billion-to-get-schools-electric-buses-this-michigan-district-says-theirs-hardly-work/[/URL]During an April 19 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGONY4aOK6c" target="_blank">presentation</a> to the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education, the district&#039;s environmental sustainability director, Emile Lauzzana, highlighted a number of issues with the district&#039;s electric bus fleet. Those buses, Lauzzana said, have &quot;a lot of downtime and performance issues&quot; and aren&#039;t &quot;fully on the road,&quot; despite the fact that they are &quot;approximately five times more expensive than regular buses.&quot; The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were &quot;originally estimated to be only about $50,000&quot; but &quot;ended up being more like $200,000,&quot; according to Lauzzana. &quot;I have a number of colleagues in different states who are facing similar challenges,&quot; the district official lamented. &quot;For the school bus market, it&#039;s been challenging for us.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5597109, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-spent-1-billion-to-get-schools-electric-buses-this-michigan-district-says-theirs-hardly-work/[/URL] During an April 19 [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGONY4aOK6c']presentation[/URL] to the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education, the district's environmental sustainability director, Emile Lauzzana, highlighted a number of issues with the district's electric bus fleet. Those buses, Lauzzana said, have "a lot of downtime and performance issues" and aren't "fully on the road," despite the fact that they are "approximately five times more expensive than regular buses." The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were "originally estimated to be only about $50,000" but "ended up being more like $200,000," according to Lauzzana. "I have a number of colleagues in different states who are facing similar challenges," the district official lamented. "For the school bus market, it's been challenging for us." [/QUOTE]

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