Three years after the company that sold Miami-Dade a fleet of electric buses went bankrupt, the county is still trying to figure out what to do about them – including taking legal action.
Miami-Dade and Broward were contracted to spend $126 million on a fleet of electric buses from a company called Proterra to cut climate-warming emissions and save residents money on fuel.
What they didn’t know at the time was that in less than a year after the buses were received most of them would be broken down and sidelined and that the company they bought them from would go bankrupt and be unable to provide service, maintenance or spare parts to keep the fleets on the street. Then, the company that took over for Proterra, Pheonix, also failed to replace essential parts on the buses – like batteries and gearboxes…