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That’s good news - such shit that a badly managed company can leave taxpayers holding the bag like that.
Idk tho, busses get the shit beat out of them… I’ve known some bus mechanics and most of what they do is suspension/breaks and like aircon type shit, the drivetrain is only a part of the job.
Just speculating wildly for fun - I wonder if it’s just that they didn’t design with off the shelf parts so once they went under nobody could get their specific suspension bits or whatever the hell got busted.
I do agree that software issues so quickly does indicate some fuckery, though. Also the fact that they went under lmao
Edit: Lool I missed this paragraph: “The lawyers told the court Broward County purchased 42 buses from Proterra for $54 million, and the first batch only operated for an average of 600 miles before breaking down, while the second batch averaged 1,800. For comparison, the county's diesel buses average 4,500 between failures, the filing said.”
Yikes. That’s pretty bad lol.
I'm sure most of the bus was parts off the shelf. The electronics to power the motors, which probably failed due to vibrations are not off the shelf equipment.