Columbia did a study of the life time cost of busses and found it was about 1.18 million for an electric bus. So for the same cost of this boondoggle we could have had 135,000 electric buses on the road. Probably even more if they were trolley buses.
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Columbia did a study of the life time cost of busses and found it was about 1.18 million for an electric bus. So for the same cost of this boondoggle we could have had 135,000 electric buses on the road. Probably even more if they were trolley buses.
https://www.columbia.edu/~ja3041/Electric%20Bus%20Analysis%20for%20NYC%20Transit%20by%20J%20Aber%20Columbia%20University%20-%20May%202016.pdf