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TFL has been running all-electric bus routes in several areas of London since at least 2014 with no issues. All-electric lithium pack buses are +10 year old te
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
TFL has been running all-electric bus routes in several areas of London since at least 2014 with no issues.
All-electric lithium pack buses are +10 year old tech. Nothing about this is experimental.
This is probably more likely an OEM fuck-up or whoever was contracted by the city of Paris to supply these buses.
- epistasis 4y agoIn the context of 100 years of electric buses, 10 years is still quite new. Agreed that this is an error on the manufacturer. It's actually really hard to get design and manufacturing quality to such a high degree to prevent one of the many many many cells from shorting and causing a fire. The battery manufacturers that have this figured out have built a really great wall for themselves, which is probably why we won't see many new large battery manufacturers from here on out.
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago> In the context of 100 years of electric buses, 10 years is still quite new. No, If we were talking about the effects of some Tech in Human health I would agree with this sort of cautionary principle. In the context of electronics, lithium batteries are a 46BN dollar market. Modern manufacturing is producing billions of assemblies and power electronics with well known quality assurance, failure-modes, MTTF, etc. In the context of modern manufacturing processes and volume 10 years is an eternity.