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Post by redbus on Feb 28, 2020 0:04:37 GMT
Strictly speaking when the government talked about 2040, 2035 and then 2032 is the last date petrol and diesel vehicles can be purchased. Tfl initially said that from 2037 all buses would be zero emmison in service not just the last that can be purchased. I think you may well be right, but even so, there will I my opinion, be irresistible pressure by then to get to get rid of even hybrid buses. This will also translate into a lower value for the bus by then, so if you are looking well forward at the whole life of the bus there are good reasons to be cautious about buying new diesel / hybrid buses.
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Post by speller on Mar 1, 2020 22:34:38 GMT
Would be nice to see the 69 get electrics especially as it already uses a couple & LI has facilities.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2020 22:47:34 GMT
Would be nice to see the 69 get electrics especially as it already uses a couple & LI has facilities. LI doesn't have electric charging facilities it has hydrogen facilities. The existing buses used inductive charging at Canning Town and Walthamstow Bus Stations and this was discontinue sometime ago. The DNHs now run in diesel mode.
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Post by redbus on Mar 1, 2020 22:59:03 GMT
Would be nice to see the 69 get electrics especially as it already uses a couple & LI has facilities. LI doesn't have electric charging facilities it has hydrogen facilities. The existing buses used inductive charging at Canning Town and Walthamstow Bus Stations and this was discontinue sometime ago. The DNHs now run in diesel mode. Presumably you mean ordinary hybrid mode (ie no opportunity charging at Canning Town or Walthamstow. Given the investment made for the opportunity charging, I am surprised it could not be made work as expected.
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Post by ohdear on Mar 1, 2020 23:19:09 GMT
NB4Ls at the minimum will stay for their 14 year life. Probably in the 2 or 3 years or so the NB4L successor will be created which will just be the same with a different name. I don't believe any successor or Khan himself has committed to another non essential vehicle so can't see one suddenly popping out of thin air. Think it was the power that be rather than the powers that be
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Post by speller on Mar 4, 2020 0:05:34 GMT
When LTs are old or need to be replaced by electric vehicles will the design be similar to the LT or a regular conventional?
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Post by ilovelondonbuses on Mar 4, 2020 0:24:53 GMT
When LTs are old or need to be replaced by electric vehicles will the design be similar to the LT or a regular conventional? TfL would be mad to make another bespoke bus for London. The LTs have hardly been a successful project. Best to leave vehicle choices to the operators.
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Post by speller on Mar 4, 2020 0:26:45 GMT
When LTs are old or need to be replaced by electric vehicles will the design be similar to the LT or a regular conventional? TfL would be mad to make another bespoke bus for London. The LTs have hardly been a successful project. Best to leave vehicle choices to the operators. If it was down to me, I'd just replace all LTs with conventional electric or hybrid promptly. I know lot of money has been used for the LTs.
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Post by redbus on Mar 4, 2020 22:58:10 GMT
When LTs are old or need to be replaced by electric vehicles will the design be similar to the LT or a regular conventional? TfL would be mad to make another bespoke bus for London. The LTs have hardly been a successful project. Best to leave vehicle choices to the operators. Some think it was a *mad* decision to buy the LTs in the first place. Remember like the decision or not, it came down to politics and who knows what decision or new buses politics will throw up in the future.
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Mar 8, 2020 14:18:20 GMT
NB4Ls at the minimum will stay for their 14 year life. Probably in the 2 or 3 years or so the NB4L successor will be created which will just be the same with a different name. I even think some could stay for around 16 years, where they converted a route mid-tender. So for example those on routes 267, introduced at the turn of 2017/18, could see out the 2019-26 tender with Abellio and even the whole of the 2026-33 term, if both tender terms last 7 years.
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