What the actual fuck⁈ “Batteries can catch on fire.” Sure, whatever could go wrong with a 1000l tank of FUCKING GASOLINE.

AAAaaaaHHhh I hate people!

Meanwhile in Australia:

Meanwhile on the Autobahn:

Battery fires are also less common than gasoline fires. But batteries are expensive, so overhead lines are still a good idea

Switzerland runs a lot of these buses. Also trams, normal buses , trains. For those people in the U.S., it's a very effective and efficient system called public transport.

Honestly, for growing places, or places with bad public transit, diesel busses are the way to go. They are the cheapest and require almost no new infrastructure so it can offset car emissions quicker than the other options. Established bus routes that are popular should be converted to tram lines or BRT.

People need to learn the difference between „Doesn’t catch fire“ and „Doesn’t burn AS EASY AS gasoline“.

"Electric buses aren't safe because the batteries can catch on fire"

London here running hybrids for over half a decade with no issue.

We had trolley busses here in Wellington NZ for decades. The network needed an upgrade so our shortsighted council ripped it down while promising battery buses to replace the trolleys. We ended up with old, dirty, diesels chugging round our city for years, an I'm not sure we've gotten rid of them all yet. It was a disaster.

trams!!!

We have these in Vancouver, a lot of them. And a few battery buses as well

Trams.... Where isn't possible trams use trolleybus... That's it!!! But what is sad, Eastern Europe falls into buying electric buses because it's mainstream 😬

Let's face it: in most US cities there probably isn't much aesthetic for the power lines to spoil. Just like in the grey Soviet cities where they come from

There's also an idea of doing this in highways.

Tom Scott video on it: https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

The best thing trolleybuses have going for them is their relatively low dependence on rare earth elements in production in contrast with BEV buses with their large batteries. Trolleybuses environmental toll is way smaller and it makes producers and operators way less dependent on third world countries devastating the environment with slave labor.

add some steel wheels then its perfect

They are still running in The Netherlands, although only in 1 city.

When I was there I found those busses really cool. But to my knowledge, they're being phased out. They essentially combine the worst of bus and tram:

• relies on special infrastructure and thus cannot go anywhere, is more expensive than bus
• often shares the street with other cars being more vulnerable to traffic, uses tires (leading to fine particles)

San Francisco has a fair number of overhead electric busses, too.

i actually like the aesthetic.

My grandfather ran a printing press using old trolley bus motors, reliable and powerful shit.

Buses are lame. They combine the cons of public transit with the cons of driving a car in a city. I believe in tram surpremacy.

I think someone else mentioned that San Francisco has these. I also wanted to throw in that Seattle has got them too. Maybe it's a West Coast thing in the USA? I'd be curious to know if other parts of the country have them too.

I heard we tried that in some German Cities way back in the 80ies or even late 70ies, but the technology wasn't that far yet and the overhead cables would get damaged when the buses engaged them, sometimes leading to complete outages of the tram network, and as such it was scrapped again. Glad to see that other places took it on later, we could really need that right now.

here in Santiago we have more than 1000 Electric Buses In operation, they work great.

Trolleys can't divert trough an alternative route if the original route got blocked somehow (for example it got barricaded.) wich is a common occurrence here in Santiago.

I would like to drive around in one of these please.. in the front or back, i dont mind!