(26 Sep 2015, 8:49 pm)BusLoverMum wrote V shiny.
GNE wouldn't like it. There's hardly anywhere to put any branding.
What's the range of these things, btw? They'd probably need a pretty extensive network of charging points or swappable batteries for most of the routes they have up here, wouldn't they?
They're electric-hybrids.
Lothian are to introduce 20 new electric-hybrids by 2017 and they will carry a similar livery to the Volvo 7900 Hybrids. I'm not sure how publicly known it is which route is being upgraded, so I'll keep schtum for now.
When at a terminus, they will be 'plugged in' to charge the bus for the journey to the next terminus. There has been a few instances over the last week whereby the demonstration vehicle which Malarkey pictured broke down owing to the failure of one of the batteries, meaning it had to be towed back to the depot.
It is merely a prototype model, so the Volvo representative would not disclose information to me regarding the vehicle and infrastructure price.