It's likely enough these buses were in service for close to 5 years without a fire, from 2016: https://insideevs.com/news/327483/bollore-introduces-12-meter-el

It's likely enough these buses were in service for close to 5 years without a fire, from 2016: https://insideevs.com/news/327483/bollore-introduces-12-meter-electric-buses-with-lmp-batteries/ https://insideevs.com/news/327483/bollore-introduces-12-mete... Pulling them out of service while they try to figure out the cause of the fires isn't unreasonable.