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The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and the cables would install themselves automatically.

[–] kameecoding -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's better than the buses breaking down.

https://youtu.be/B78-FgNqdc8?si=1dMORMc1EYhA6abL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but youtube experts and their google research are not a reliable source of information for me. It's entertaining but it's the last thing I would base city planning on.

[–] kameecoding -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lol

" i refuse to engage with content that says i am wrong"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So some dude on the Internet says I'm wrong. Guess what? I'm also a dude on the Internet and I say he's wrong. Checkers!

[–] kameecoding 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but this dude has this thing called common sense, try acquiring that first.

Maybe then you can think about the implications of BE buses more than " cables need to be installed therefore Be is better than trolley"

You might think about stuff like extra weight extra purchase cost, decreased capacity, more expensive road maintenance cost, less uptime due to charging, less efficiency due to weight, decreased range in cold or hot when AC is needed that makes everything worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Show me a town that recently switched to trolleys and done a cost/benefit analysis after couple of years that confirms they saved money and I will absolutely agree with you.

[–] kameecoding 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why don't you show me a town that switched from trolleys to BeBs and saved money ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't have data, you don't have data. All we know is that lots of cities choose electric/hybrid buses while no cities choose trolleys. If you think it's because everyone working in the public transport departments is stupid and only some youtuber is super smart that's fine. I'm sceptical.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Literally the first city I checked is switching gas powered buses to trolleys and new bus purchases are going down to 0 and Brno unlike many cities has an excellent public transport system

https://www.idnes.cz/brno/zpravy/dopravni-podnik-brno-financni-plan-uspory-zvysene-naklady-rozpocet.A221213_696580_brno-zpravy_azu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You checked one city at random and they were switching to trolleys? Amazing. Anyway, good for them. Let's hope it will work and in a couples of years we'll have some hard data to base policy on.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 11 months ago

Not at random, I lived there for 9 years, so it's a city close to my heart.