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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
by gorgoiler 5y ago
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?
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago> 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).
- sgjohnson 5y agoBut 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.
- pjerem 5y agoEV 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.
- sgjohnson 5y agoIn my city, most buses run on hydrogen. None run on batteries.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"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.