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We need more electric trolley busses. These battery powered ones are nonsense

• akgerber 4y ago
  Modern trolleybuses with in-motion charging, like Dayton's latest models, will still have substantial batteries for off-wire operation.
  • sofixa 4y ago
    Even then, a much lower capacity is required if the trolley bus will spend the majority of it's lifecycle on a catenary.
  • RC_ITR 4y ago
    Yeah but a city like sf has run those for decades very safely.
• KennyBlanken 4y ago
  Trolley buses cannot be detoured and the infrastructure costs are enormous, as is the cost of even a minor route change. Battery technology continues to improve in cost, energy density, and charge/discharge rate. There are already systems that use a catenary-like device to "top off" the bus while it is stopped at a bus stop.
  • sofixa 4y ago
    All modern trolleybuses have either batteries or diesel engines for detours. Infrastructure costs aren't "enormous", that would be if you're putting rails in the ground for trams.