Here's another example, available in diesel, plugin hybrid, electric, and _natural gas_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dennis_Enviro400_Cit... (my local system uses the hybrid version of these).
Even for double deckers, which are a bit of a niche and really mostly only used in Ireland and the UK in Europe, there are at least four big manufacturers, only one of which is BYD.
They are also so much more comfortable.
Less noisy, less rattly.
I would think it makes society healthier to have quieter, less annoying ways to commute.
This is something else, a startup that I've only ever seen schoolbuses from.
Batteries tend to have a max charge/discharge cycle. Unlike a consumer car, buses see a lot more distance. I wonder how much more quickly the batteries go.
I would expect a large scale operator to recover a lot of money from the sale of those rare earth minerals.
In short, you're diverting "how often" to "meh, who cares, they're recyclable", without any validation that it negates the cost.
> Our results indicate that today's electrified bus fleets are roughly cost comparable to their traditional diesel counterparts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X2...
The only bit where slowing electrification comes up is the first sentence, which felt like an attempt to spin fallout from Trump chaos as people waking up to the folly of electrification instead.
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