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This is easy. Diesel buses were more cost effective than electric trolleys, which is why they replaced all the trolleys with diesel buses. Electric (battery)
by village-idiot 8y ago
This is easy.
Diesel buses were more cost effective than electric trolleys, which is why they replaced all the trolleys with diesel buses.
Electric (battery) buses are expected to be more cost effective than the diesel buses they’re replacing.
Thanks to the transitive property of inequality, we would expect electric buses to be more cost effective than electric trolleys.
- rsynnott 8y agoIf the cost of everything has stayed the same for the last century, that's correct. In real life, however, the economics have changed; a number of cities are actually bringing back tram lines and/or trambuses. This is partially because (tracked) tram lines can support far greater line capacity than buses, though.
- village-idiot 8y agoMixed overhead and battery usage seems to be a very wise idea. The flexibility of a bus and the cheap charging of a trolley. In general a lot of this has to do with the infrastructure of your city, and the local costs of retrofitting streets to include overhead wires.
- 0db532a0 8y agoInequality is not transitive.