Comments by "" (@danielwhyatt3278) on "Oakland becomes first U.S. school district to deploy all-electric bus fleet" video.

Wonderful to see.👏🏻👏🏻 It is a shame that it is a Chinese brand model (purely because BYD gets CCP government subsidies nothing against the company itself) but at least for you chaps over in the US it was actually made in America (yeees, they’re doing that now and should be happy about it), and for now it is a much more sound financial decision which local governments are always being nagged at to do. These buses are just as efficient even if they are made in the US, so at least you’ve got more local jobs and these ones cost a lot less than any US alternative unless it is custom conversion job. I hope this happens to more fleets across your country, as well as here in the UK. We shouldn’t be attacking another country’s company because they are actually doing well (even if a lot of that is through the health of government subsidies) that is just petty smallmindedness and absolute hypocrisy. Rather than attacking another company because you perceived to be a threat, how about doing the same thing they are and actually give national companies the support they need (sometimes we need a little support to get off the ground), rather than just blocking another country’s company that you perceived to be a threat to maintain the status quo.
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Totally. The US, let alone here in Europe definitely need more small compact EV like this. It’s what we are wanting most of all, yet there just doesn’t seem to be this realisation at the government or corporate level. The advanced majority of us don’t care about tons of flashy interior features. Just a good interface radio system (still need to make sure they are compatible with our smart devices after all, lol) and an efficient battery is all we really want.
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@benben6054 That is true for now, especially as there isn’t as much of a huge financial incentive right now to have the best batteries in less famous brand model buses versus cars, but it will continue to go down as the desire from the public and local governments go up. plus, you are only thinking about the buying price, as so many people do. Once you’ve actually bought them so long as you manage your finances carefully, it will eventually save you so much in terms of running costs and fuel use which means eventually you will start being in the green again (pun not intended). If you aren’t, then you either didn’t manage your finances correctly from the start (something which is definitely prevalent over in the US), which can happen in many different areas not just going Green, or they didn’t spend correctly after making the purchases on other items, thinking it’d all be ok now with that temporary high. Either way so long as things are don’t correctly after getting electrified vehicles, schools and other businesses should be much better off in the long-term rather than just the short term.
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@PistonAvatarGuy Ok you are wrong on two fronts there. firstly, you can’t require your government to always buy your own nations cars absolutely. You should try and aim for that reasonably first, but if there are no viable financial options and of course you should go for a foreign one. Otherwise you are literally wasting tons of money that of course the public won’t be happy with you doing. And secondly, buses absolutely, waste tons of fuel and loads of emissions. They literally highlighted that in this editorial. Vehicles that are sitting idle but still running are wasting loads of fuel, creasing a lot of dangerous emissions and buses along with ambulances and sometimes police vehicles along with long hauling vehicles are the biggest contributors to this. They’ve definitely made the right choice here. It’s not BYD’s fault that they are the most financially viable right now. They aren’t listening to your private conversations through these vehicles, so until the US government gets its act together and actually helps to subsidise electric companies, Chinese firms are the real only option and people shouldn’t be chastised for this.
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