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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by gorgoiler on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:36PM (#29689731)
How heavy is an EV bus? Battery-electric cars are already pretty hefty for their class. Would a bus be even more so, to the point of being dangerously massive?
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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by pjerem on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:17AM (#29690425)
EV bus are not science fiction. There are a lot of them working everyday in a lot cities. So no, there is no such thing as dangerous weight.
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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by sgjohnson on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:18AM (#29691155)
In my city, most buses run on hydrogen. None run on batteries.
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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:54AM (#29690104)
> Battery-electric cars are already pretty hefty for their class

A Tesla Model 3 weights roughly as much as its ICE equivalent (BMW 3 series).

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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by sgjohnson on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:17AM (#29691149)
But this doesn’t scale well. Buses will be pulling a lot more weight than a Tesla Model 3 or BMW 3er. And you’ve got the same problem with semi-trucks.

More weight to pull = more power required = more batteries required = more weight to pull. Almost a catch-22 when you factor in the increase in recharge time. For commercial vehicles, a minute of downtime is a minute of the said vehicle not making any money.

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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday December 26, 2021 @10:40AM (#29693238)
"being dangerously massive?"

What does this mean? Do you expect a bus to weigh more than a fully loaded truck? Trucks in uk weight up to 44 tons, the largest double-decker bus is 12.

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