Fellwing🇪🇺So, I never really thought of #busses as anything especially interesting until I looked more into #Proterra.
The Energy Gang: Will Electric Buses Take Over the Transit World? http://rss.art19.com/episodes/c943093b-7e8a-468d-983a-9111a741796d.mp3
bhtooefr@Lingondraken Proterra really is an interesting one. (I'll need to get that podcast into my queue.)
@bhtooefr
Jealous they are not active in Europe. Here they are faffing around with trials HEV busses where I am and biogas in cities (from food compost). Sure better than pure diesel, but it won't exactly progress far from that. Air quality, please!
Jealous they are not active in Europe. Here they are faffing around with trials HEV busses where I am and biogas in cities (from food compost). Sure better than pure diesel, but it won't exactly progress far from that. Air quality, please!
@Lingondraken AFAIK they've adapted their roof-mount fast charging system to support a catenary and pantograph instead of the blade system that they use for fast charging at stops here, specifically for any European customers that want it.
I feel like BYD has more resources aimed at the European market, though. (Interestingly, Alexander Dennis is selling BYD-powered double deckers in Europe, and Proterra-powered double deckers in the US.)
stenoweb\corywEvery (or most, at least) American bus company is starting to offer battery electric and trolleypole+supercap-or-battery electric buses. A couple states mandating a move toward electric seems to be *most* of what really got it going, though I think it would be fair to say that, say, Washington State looking at Proterra and saying "hey why isn't everyone building this?" really started it.