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complete crap standards Care to expand? Euro standards being crap, or manufacturer's? I'd thought that one of the roadblocks for chinese products would be the

• neuronic 8y ago
  Apologies for late reply. I have listed the issues for you that Hochbahn has summarised in their public statements. Following points are at the very least not satisfactory, some are almost seen as fraudulent claims from BYD: - Passenger comfort, spacing in the busses, quality of used materials, information systems - No regard or interest for European market and no licenses - Batteries are not sufficient for actual service, listed capacities are not representative of normal use due to variables in traffic, weather, road conditions, driver performance, air conditioning - BYD faces criticism for many issues with their busses such as reported inability to drive up hills - BYD seems to report battery capacity at twice (!) of their practical capacity in every day use - BYD busses have reduced life spans, making their e-busses even more uneconomic These are problems of early/novel e-busses but it effectively leads to the inability to deliver a service at the quality that German customers demand. There is simply no way that anyone will be ok with getting out of a bus into the rain/snow, walking the rest of the track because the battery suddenly ran out earlier than expected.