Taking the Gillig 4011H home, a 2008 hybrid bus home. Nothing grows older faster than the future.
I remember when they were new buses, something to try out because they were going to be future of a green, energy efficient economy in an era when gasoline cost $4.20 a gallon locally, and climate change was a problem that everybody thought was a critical crisis to be addressed. Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, and even the New Hampshire Primary was in the distant future. Congress had recently passed the Energy Policy Act of 2007, signed into law by President George W. Bush, that would among other things save billions of kilowatts and millions of gallons of gasoline with more efficient automobiles and consumer lighting technology. Different times for sure.