BTTT.
“Greensboro Transit Authority has 10 battery-powered buses scheduled for delivery in late 2018.”
Thanks Tol. I won’d deny the practicality of electric buses, they’ve been around much longer than myself (the ones running directly off power lines). City buses are the ultimate stop-and-go vehicle, which is great for any electric vehicle that uses regenerative braking.
But these are battery, and I can only imagine the battery size in these monsters, probably 5 to 10 times what’s in a Tesla...and, eventually, one of these will light up, and it will be ugly.
So some advice to the cities and the builders of these vehicles - think like airplanes where they have to demonstrate the ability to evacuate in 90 seconds. I suspect a fully loaded city bus would take at least 5 minutes to do the same...but that is a long time in those kinds of fires.