> Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.” “We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said.
It’s disingenuous to quote someone from Power the Future, a known fossil fuel advocate in the beginning of the article. Batteries are subject to recalls. So what? Newer technologies aren’t as mature yet. If you wait until a technology is fully mature before adopting it, you are never going to adopt any new technology. The Chevy Bolt has had some bad battery recalls and actual fires, but these days these growing pains are over and the Bolt is a reliable vehicle.