Electric School Bus Adoption:
- PEI 33%
- Quebec 15%
- BC 5.0%
- Can 3.8%
- NB 1.8%
- Ontario 0.5%
- AB 0.02%
The three decisive drivers of successful electric school bus adoption: clear regulatory targets, robust and predictable provincial funding, and proactive charging infrastructure planning.
Man… to think we had Lion Electric in Québec, building electric school buses and delivery trucks, that was expanding all across North America when suddenly the whole thing went tits up with a whole fiasco.
Québec had invested nearly 180 million dollars. The CEO said they had tons of orders coming in from everywhere including Amazon, CN, Ikea. And when the company went public in 2021, people were confident that this company was going to be a great success. Except the CEO lied.
4 years later, the share dropped 95%. Investors lost everything. The provincial government pulled their investments and requested an investigation. Shareholders now filed a class action lawsuit for false information and for not communicating the true financial health of the company.
I swear… every time a company with a great idea is started in Québec, it always fails because of the fucking CEO who’s trying to pull a fast one. Like Bixi rent-a-bikes. The company was about to go bankrupt until the city bought the whole thing and made it a city owned company and the whole thing became a huge success. I bet if Québec bought LION Electric and managed it properly as a crown corp, it would be a huge success.
All I hear is that they need to cut out the corruption of the private sector and make it public.
AB doesn’t give a rat’s ass who buys their oil. The US, other provinces, themselves. They just want to sell oil. No plan but gimme gimme gimme. How lame can you be.
Only three other provinces scored any points. New Brunswick scored 168 points, or 42 per cent (22 ESBs, 1.8 per cent of fleet). Ontario and Alberta each scored 101 points, or 25 per cent, with ESBs making up 0.5 per cent of the former’s fleet and just 0.02 per cent of the latter’s.
Was not expecting to see Alberta with any points!
Manitoba (rural) driver here. No electric buses whatsoever out here in the redneck sticks. A few very fucking annoying propane ones cause hey why not.
My city can barely hire enough people willing to drive these busses. I’m not at all surprised that there isn’t a willingness to upgrade them either.
Why does no one want to work for 2-2.5 hours a day, with a 7 hour gap in the middle?
This is pretty pointless, like electric fire trucks.
These buses are used briefly twice a day, 5 days a week, 10 months.
That seems like an ideal use case for EVs.
Wait until you hear how much most passenger cars drive…
I’ll ruin the suprise. It’s 380 hours per year.
1 hour run x am/pm x 5 days x 10 months; 500 hours. Already have the Canadian average beat, even before adding field trips, summer camps, and other chartered drives.
Just like asbestos removal? It is only dangerous if you breath it in.
