Dortmund Chooses Diesel Buses Over Electric Ones
The hype about ‘green’ energies being the future is quickly becoming a thing of the past as utopian promises clash with reality
The ‘Green’ movement is turning out to be nothing but a silly LSD fantasy.
The city of Dortmund, Germany, is finding out that electric buses are significantly more expensive than diesel buses, even with government subsidies, reports Blackout News here.
Due to the high costs, DSW21, a German transit company, is now delaying the full transition to an electric fleet and plans to continue purchasing some diesel buses alongside electric ones.
The plan was to replace the diesel buses with electric vehicles and to operate a largely emission-free fleet by 2035, but that’s looking extremely unlikely.
Diesel Buses Half The Price Of An Electric Bus
Blackout News reports that the costs of switching to electric buses are almost impossible to manage without state funding.
A diesel bus only costs around €400,000 [$432,720], whereas an electric bus costs around €800,000 [$865,440].
This makes the switch to electric vehicles expensive, even with government subsidies.
“Without financial support from the German government, replacing the remaining 155 diesel buses with electric vehicles would cost around 140 million euros [$152 million]. That is almost three times as expensive as purchasing new diesel buses.”
Government subsidies for electric buses are decreasing, thus making the transition over to an electric bus fleet even more challenging.
The EU directives are phasing out diesel-powered buses and by 2035 only emission-free vehicles may then be used. That target is now in jeopardy as the government scales back subsidies.
The other problem that gets ignored, and is not mentioned in the article, is the maintenance and service costs of the buses. Diesel buses are cheap, reliable, and can run for many years.
Electric buses, on the other hand, require massive batteries, which are exorbitantly expensive. And what value does a seven-year-old electric bus have?
Potential Folly
“The long-term conversion to a zero-emission fleet will be significantly delayed if no further subsidies are made available.
The decision to buy diesel buses again shows how much the industry is dependent on financial support to achieve the climate targets.”
Electric buses are increasingly appearing to be another costly ‘green’ misadventure, and possibly a complete folly if policymakers refuse to wake up.
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Aaron
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This is so scripted, just like the deportation that is happening or seriously being talked about realm wide, just like covid and the jab and on and on all scripted
but
No problem, they got the results they wanted
bet they dont return the money to the people that they stole it from
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