That’s why my city runs hydrogen busses. Turns out they’re incredibly cheap to maintain. The biggest hurdle for them was purchase price but they managed to score a 75% donation from the EU.
Public transport buses won’t be charged on public chargers. They have service facilities where they will be charged and maintained.
Furthermore, I talk about new busses, not about replacing perfectly fine working existing busses. So parallel to the new busses you have time to increase the capacity of the infrastructure.
I don’t think the points you mentioned, are an actual problem. And remember they have planned to become climate neutral by the end of this decade. Obviously this want be the case, but nevertheless I don’t see the problem to invest in the infrastructure which will cost something now but will be cheaper by a substantial margin in the long run. This is just a logical process imo.
Most countries have rules in place about how many hours a driver is allowed to drive without a break. It’s “after 4,5h, make a 45 min pause” here in Germany, which at 80km/h or 100km/h max for buses gives you a range of 360km - 450km, which is totally fine with current technology. The biggest problem here is that companies are totally ignoring the rules here
Wouldn’t long journeys make that somewhat infeasible?
Charging stations don’t look like they cater for buses, and I imagine charging the batteries of a bus to take a while, even at high KW.
That’s why my city runs hydrogen busses. Turns out they’re incredibly cheap to maintain. The biggest hurdle for them was purchase price but they managed to score a 75% donation from the EU.
Public transport buses won’t be charged on public chargers. They have service facilities where they will be charged and maintained.
Furthermore, I talk about new busses, not about replacing perfectly fine working existing busses. So parallel to the new busses you have time to increase the capacity of the infrastructure.
I don’t think the points you mentioned, are an actual problem. And remember they have planned to become climate neutral by the end of this decade. Obviously this want be the case, but nevertheless I don’t see the problem to invest in the infrastructure which will cost something now but will be cheaper by a substantial margin in the long run. This is just a logical process imo.
You are actually agreeing with me here :)
Yes they are aiming to be neutral, but the charging infrastructure isn’t ready yet. So it’s only 50% if new buses. In time it will be 100%.
Most countries have rules in place about how many hours a driver is allowed to drive without a break. It’s “after 4,5h, make a 45 min pause” here in Germany, which at 80km/h or 100km/h max for buses gives you a range of 360km - 450km, which is totally fine with current technology. The biggest problem here is that companies are totally ignoring the rules here