Electric Buses Recalled After Another EV School Bus Catches Fire
When sending your kids to school, you expect the bus they ride to transport them to and from school safely. However, with electric buses, we are seeing an increased risk. EV buses are spontaneously catching fire; an experience no one wants to be a part of. Unfortunately, it is one that happened last week when a bus caught fire in Quebec, prompting the government to order 1,200 LION Electric buses off the road. This isn’t even the first time this has happened. Since November 2024, there have been three incidents, including fires and thermal damage, which have raised concerns across Canada.
CBC reports,
“In a emailed statement sent Friday, Transport Canada said that to date it’s aware of three fires and one thermal incident involving LionC school buses. Its investigation into those is ongoing. It says extensive fire damage means it hasn’t been able to determine the root cause of the fires and therefore cannot say for certain it’s due to a defect.”
There have been multiple incidents involving fire and EVs, but there is never an explanation. In fact, it took three incidents for the financially struggling LION company to pull its electric bus fleet from the streets.
This demonstrates that electric buses are a complete failure wherever they are implemented. Here in the United States, Kamala Harris’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program resulted in just 135 buses being developed due to the lack of EV infrastructure and the absurd costs when compared to diesel buses.
The result is clear: EV buses are unreliable, unsafe, and cause more problems than they solve.
September 18, 2025