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RE: Electric vehicles - V514DFT - 13 Sep 2020
With the electric vehicles being exactly that,will they be placed in a batch of seperate fleet numbers, or will they continue the existing sequence?
Electric vehicles - TEN 6083 - 14 Sep 2020
https://twitter.com/martijngne/status/1305532426807062530?s=21
The Yutong won’t be used in service, just for testing of the charging infrastructure of the depot.
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RE: Electric vehicles - streetdeckfan - 16 Sep 2020
Looks like they'll be using Mobitec destination displays on the Yutongs rather than the usual Hanover displays. Is this due to a compatibility issue or are we likely to see a switch over to Mobitec displays with new orders?
I assume that means the NSA system will be different as well, unless they're using a Hanover NSA with Mobitec blinds?
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 16 Sep 2020
(16 Sep 2020, 3:43 pm)streetdeckfan Looks like they'll be using Mobitec destination displays on the Yutongs rather than the usual Hanover displays. Is this due to a compatibility issue or are we likely to see a switch over to Mobitec displays with new orders?
I assume that means the NSA system will be different as well, unless they're using a Hanover NSA with Mobitec blinds?
This gonna sound dumb as out, but whats the difference between the Mobitec destination displays and the Hanover displays?
RE: Electric vehicles - omnicity4659 - 17 Sep 2020
(16 Sep 2020, 7:19 pm)Michael This gonna sound dumb as out, but whats the difference between the Mobitec destination displays and the Hanover displays?
Different manufacturer, companies such as Transdev use Mobitec displays.
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 19 Sep 2020
Does anyone what fleet numbers the electric buses will gain?
RE: Electric vehicles - Malarkey - 19 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 4:45 pm)Michael Does anyone what fleet numbers the electric buses will gain?
I would think they'd carries on the 83** series on or start off a new ones of 84**.
RE: Electric vehicles - LVK 404L - 19 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 6:12 pm)Malarkey I would think they'd carries on the 83** series on or start off a new ones of 84**.Not that long ago since we had the 84xx series. The ex OK Travel darts so be unusual for them to reuse that series so soon.
RE: Electric vehicles - streetdeckfan - 19 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 6:12 pm)Malarkey I would think they'd carries on the 83** series on or start off a new ones of 84**.
Is there a reason they wouldn't just carry on from the E200s, or just start the 55** series?
RE: Electric vehicles - deanmachine - 19 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 6:35 pm)streetdeckfan Is there a reason they wouldn't just carry on from the E200s, or just start the 55** series?
They're not full length buses, they're shorter ones like the current Saltwell Park Streetlites I believe. Midibuses being 8*** series rather than the full size 5*** series.
RE: Electric vehicles - streetdeckfan - 19 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 7:06 pm)deanmachine They're not full length buses, they're shorter ones like the current Saltwell Park Streetlites I believe. Midibuses being 8*** series rather than the full size 5*** series.
Ah yes, I thought the E10 was the full length one, but that's the E12
The E10 is 10.8m and the E12 is 12m, hence the names!
RE: Electric vehicles - ian foster - 20 Sep 2020
(19 Sep 2020, 6:25 pm)ifm001 Not that long ago since we had the 84xx series. The ex OK Travel darts so be unusual for them to reuse that series so soon.The ex OK buses mentioned were Volvo B6's not Darts.
Ne14ne1 - ne14ne1 - 03 Oct 2020
Is the electric TfL bus at the back of Riverside the one for testing out the charging equipment or the Metrocity on trial.. if that’s still here?
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 08 Oct 2020
The region’s first latest generation, zero-emissions, full electric buses are also set to enter service at the end of next month, operating around Newcastle and Gateshead.
https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/clean-air-day-2020
RE: Electric vehicles - streetdeckfan - 09 Oct 2020
So when are we expecting to see GNE 'flip the switch' on VOLTRA?
Pretty sure what hype they managed to build (probably all of 2 people) has completely died now. The amount of people responding to the announcement tweet with 'What's Voltra' was comical.
No offence to whoever made it, but the coming soon video is crap and the music doesn't suit it in the slightest. As if any non-enthusiast is going to get excited over a finger flicking a switch or a picture of the front of a bus getting bigger with the word VOLTRA over the top.
I expected something to happen on Clean Air Day, but all we got was a note on the bottom of a press release saying buses are arriving next month.
Surely they at least have some renderings of the new buses like they did for the E400/StreetDeck announcement to show off
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 18 Oct 2020
According to the news... the Saltwell Park Streetlites have had the branding has been modified to include promotional messaging towards "VOLTRA".
https://www.northeastbuses.co.uk/fleet/item.php?operatorF=2&fleetnoF=8342
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 19 Oct 2020
(18 Oct 2020, 1:36 pm)Michael According to the news... the Saltwell Park Streetlites have had the branding has been modified to include promotional messaging towards "VOLTRA".
https://www.northeastbuses.co.uk/fleet/item.php?operatorF=2&fleetnoF=8342
Couple of photo's have appeared on Busesnortheast Facebook page:
First picture is by Harry Wise
Second picture is by Stuart Phin
RE: Electric vehicles - GNE6312 - 19 Oct 2020
(19 Oct 2020, 4:09 pm)Michael Couple of photo's have appeared on Busesnortheast Facebook page:Are both these, used on all buses
First picture is by Harry Wise
Second picture is by Stuart Phin
RE: Electric vehicles - Drifter60 - 19 Oct 2020
(18 Oct 2020, 1:36 pm)Michael According to the news... the Saltwell Park Streetlites have had the branding has been modified to include promotional messaging towards "VOLTRA".
https://www.northeastbuses.co.uk/fleet/item.php?operatorF=2&fleetnoF=8342
Do we know/have any idea where the StreetLites will go? Aren’t these slightly smaller than the others?
RE: Electric vehicles - WestDurhamSwift - 20 Oct 2020
(19 Oct 2020, 10:16 pm)Drifter60 Do we know/have any idea where the StreetLites will go? Aren’t these slightly smaller than the others?
Maybe onto some of the older Versa operated routes, Perhaps the M6/7/8 and 69 etc.