Chicago had them back when I was a kid and for a good long while after my folks had moved the family out to the suburbs. When I was nearing "young adulthood" I remember a teacher announcing to the class that the city of Chicago had decided to change to modern diesel fuel powered buses. One of the more astute ecologically conscious students in our classroom asked the teacher "Isn't that a step backwards?"
My guess is that Tesla has already targeted the market.
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Electric buses tend to raise rents for buildings near routes at the expense of rents for buildings farther away.
ReplyDeleteDiesel buses don't have that effect because the routes can be easily changed to adjust for population shifts.
Electric buses, like light rail, are loved by politicians, perhaps because they can pick winners-and-losers and then put the squeeze on those who would benefit.
There are stories from the 1870s and 1880s where railroad companies demanded money from cities along the proposed route for new rail construction. If the city didn't pony-up, they refused to build a station or they rerouted the rail to a nearby city that was willing to pay, leaving the cheap city to die on the vine.