Re:After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
by jeffbee on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:10AM
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My city has a large fleet of fuel cell buses and has had them for over a decade, which suggests you don’t know what you are talking about.
Re:After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
by absolutelynobo on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:13AM
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So you’re saying that the the unnamed town you’re in bought a few FC buses 10 years ago and is still maintaining them today? That’s great, but it’s also an anecdote.
Have they bought any recently? Have neighboring towns bought in as well?
Re:After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
by jeffbee on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:18AM
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I see that you are doubling down on the “don’t know what you’re talking about” aspect of this debate. My local transit agency is AC Transit. It serves millions of people in several large cities. Last year it ordered fifty more fuel cell vehicles from its suppliers.
Re:After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
by absolutelynobo on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:28AM
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Thank you for sharing that link, Jeff! It’s neat to see that ACT is going for a 70% hydrogen, 30% electric mix. Their page has a unbiased-sounding section on it:
> We will be running hydrogen and battery electric vehicles in identical service to collect real-world performance data for comparison—and to determine which technology performs better to meet the needs of our service as we move towards a complete zero-emission fleet by 2040.
It looks like they started the hydrogen bus project 20 years ago, not ten.
One would also wonder why China has ~0 fuel cell buses and tens of thousands of electric buses if FC is the more mature tech.