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London’s ‘Boris Buses’ are being taken off the streets after just 12 years (www.timeout.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Mrkawfee to c/london

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

Seems like a big problem with these are the battery they used on it (as they're hybrid) which has a high failure rate and left most of the buses running on the underpowered diesel engine not meant to be driving the bus on its own all of the time. It left them sluggish, polluting, and that's not to mention the cooling and rear platform issues. It's no wonder these are being retired.

I'm curious if they'll attempt to convert these all to battery-electric or give up and use a different bus.