EVs have low maintenence costs. They have high repair costs, but rental car companies’ main financial losses were accelerated depreciation due to price cuts on new models and people Just Don’t Want To Rent Them.

I think that there might also be a missing component to the maintenance problems with some EVs. The problem might be with the designs and the manufacturers rather than the technology itself. School buses seem to be built very efficiently cost wise. Lots of standard parts repeated many times in the assemblies. Lots of…

Okay, but schools are government funded, so...

Yea its not maintaince as we think:oil chnages/belts/gaskets/transmission fluids/etc... Rentals loop body work in with maintaince.

With rental cars, people abuse the fuck out of them. They’re also often driven in unfamiliar territory so bumps and scratches are huge problems. Combine that with the fact that a ton of auto body shops still refuse to work on Teslas for some reason, that means huge maintenance costs for rental agencies.
Furthermore,…

From what I’ve seen it isn’t the maintenance costs that are killing EV rental cars, it’s repair costs when a Tesla or Polestar gets in a fender bender, a frequent issue with rental cars. The long down time for damage repair and the need to use a Tesla-certified repair center make it prohibitively expensive. 

Add in the diesel exhaust students will not be breathing.

1) Blue Bird and workers ratified a union contract last month. Kind of rare and notable in a southern state.
2) was a bit of a bus nerd in youth. Blue Bird buses always had that bird logo with a black stripe following the length of the roof. A nice little bit of “flair” on an otherwise utilitarian vehicle. The green…

Latest version of “it will be fine” lazy attitude.

But that’s the same car with two different names, instead of two different cars with the same name. (I was the one that wrote that CX-70 story)

The plan was to fuck her then renege on the deal he never intended to keep.

As of this writing, it doesn’t appear as though Hair is facing any charges related to the incident.

“Why are we even still holding Zoom court sessions these days?”

As an attorney doing these regularly, the answer is that it’s spectacularly more efficient for all involved on any number of levels, and is an extremely good thing to do, especially for a branch of government. Zoom meetings are absolutely an appropriate…

As an attorney who has been making 95% of his appearances via Zoom/Teams (except for trials and major motion arguments that will take a long time and/or require a review of exhibits) I can tell you that this is infinitely better for everyone involved, including the clients.

I mean, they probably let him do it because he wasn’t supposed to be driving

There’s a number of dumb things in your post, but this one is my favorite:

For this sort of thing, it is MUCH more efficient than gathering a crowd of people into a building somewhere while they wait for their 5 minutes in front of a judge. They do many dozens of cases a day.

I can understand it in certain circumstances, like traffic court. Some people are at a disadvantage when it comes to transportation, childcare, or low-wage jobs with strict attendance policies. Being able to appear by Zoom for only a few minutes and removing the time-suck of getting to the courthouse, finding the…

Public transit could have fixed all of these problems.

Nope, if I don’t have to be in court I’m going. Especially some conveyor belt court room like traffic court. In most cases, the best thing you can do in court is shut up and let your lawyer talk, anyways. Everyone there is being paid to be there, no one in that court room is donating their time.