rogets Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 if these elecric buses run out of power i hope they dont send somone out in a diesel van to restart it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 3 minutes ago, rogets said: if these elecric buses run out of power i hope they dont send somone out in a diesel van to restart it Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogets Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 5 minutes ago, RollingJ said: Why? because it defeats the object ev's are supposed to be better than diesels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERVY-OWL Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 1 hour ago, RollingJ said: The charge time I saw - on the official ADL spec sheet was 3.1/2 hours , but maybe that was using different charging kit? - I don't know, as just a very interested party, I can only go on publicly available data. I would have thought SYMCA (as the owners of the vehicles) would have made suitable provision for the secure overnight storage of these expensive vehicles - but accept we are talking about a dysfunctional organisation, so maybe I am expecting the impossible? I've been told the way they had to wire it up means it's a slower charge. When they can hook it up to the correct place then it might be 3.5 hours I guess but not at the moment. Just doing connects though you can probably get 3 days use before needing to charge them if you really wanted. They'd need to find somewhere other than brightside yard to store them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Just now, rogets said: because it defeats the object ev's are supposed to be better than diesels Who says? And in any case, it would have to towed back to Pond street - BY A DIESEL recovery wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogets Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Out of a 24 hour day I reckon buses need to be active 20 hours per day I am assuming the electric buses can be active 20 hours out of 24? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogets Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Just now, RollingJ said: Who says? And in any case, it would have to towed back to Pond street - BY A DIESEL recovery wagon. So it kind of proves that EVs are not an improvement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 1 minute ago, NERVY-OWL said: I've been told the way they had to wire it up means it's a slower charge. When they can hook it up to the correct place then it might be 3.5 hours I guess but not at the moment. Just doing connects though you can probably get 3 days use before needing to charge them if you really wanted. They'd need to find somewhere other than brightside yard to store them though. Fair enough, but I wonder why they couldn't provision the kit properly - or was it another SYMCA lash-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 2 minutes ago, rogets said: Out of a 24 hour day I reckon buses need to be active 20 hours per day I am assuming the electric buses can be active 20 hours out of 24? Their timetable says they run for ~12hrs/day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogets Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 1 minute ago, RollingJ said: Their timetable says they run for ~12hrs/day. Does that include when the headlights are on, heating is on, when the windscreen wipers are being used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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