We have readers in Norway, but none appear to be the “experts” making public transportation decisions in Oslo. The City spent €100 million on 183 Electric Buses that work great in the summer but not so much in the winter.
As we’ve reported on more than one occasion, electric vehicles lose reliability and range and might fail to work in the cold, and if the rumors can be believed, it gets cold in Norway for ‘several’ months out of the year. A fact the “experts” in Norway have just realized makes their new fleet of EV buses moderately to less than useless.
Oslo wants to make local public transport completely emission-free. This is why 183 new electric articulated buses were delivered in April 2023. The 100 million euro contract for this was signed last year. The buses are to run on Oslo’s busiest routes.
The new buses from Solaris were highly praised in advance and everything went well during the summer. But now, with the onset of winter, the weaknesses of the electric vehicles are becoming apparent: although a range of 250 kilometers is actually advertised, the buses sometimes simply break down.
If Mussolini were alive today, he would not have been able to make the EV buses run on time.
For the record, Norway was a recent source of research indicating that “the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.”
The experts in Oslo didn’t read that either if I had to guess, but there are at least a few sources online that have reported issues and risks related to EVs and winter weather. It should not have been difficult for someone with two brain cells to rub together to work it out. Cold weather, extreme cold, in particular, has a long known impact on current. Not new. Not recent. It’s old news. A problem that the imaginary benefits to the planet of adding thousands of pounds of battery weight to any vehicle cannot overcome. Pray all you want. The climate Cult gods cannot solve the problem.
You need politicians who are not climate activists – if you can find them. Just don’t take the bus when you go looking.
