(10 Jan 2023, 3:28 pm)Storx wrote 12 - Minibus
15 - Everything else

I believe is what they do, hence most the 61 plate Solo's are gone now.

Also the answer the charging issue is Hydrogen which will be the future for buses and HGV's anyway.

The issue with Hydrogen is the generation of it. It takes an awful lot of electricity to generate the hydrogen, so unless you're using renewables to generate it, then it's not really that much better than diesel!

I might just be making these numbers up, but I remember reading that a hydrogen powered vehicle is around 50% efficient, compared to around 70-80% efficient of a battery electric vehicle.

Obviously hydrogen has a much higher energy density, a few orders of magnitude I believe, but there's a lot of energy wasted producing the hydrogen in the first place. If the electricity is produced by hydro, solar, or wind, then that doesn't really matter, but if they're burning coal or gas then it does!

Having said all that, I 100% agree that for anything other than 'local' routes, Hydrogen is the better option as the longer range alone can make the transition feasible.