The engine of an electric bus operated by First York has blown up this afternoon, setting fire to the rest of the vehicle and leaving passengers lucky to be alive. The bus was subsidised by the taxpayer through the Department for Transport’s Green Bus Fund.

Not only did brave fire crew have to manage the fire, they had so deal with the 600 volts of electricity that run through the bus. The Green Bus Fund plans to oversee the introduction of 1200 low carbon buses at the cost of £87 million…