(04 Dec 2023, 4:03 pm)col87 wrote Should have known as usual Hartlepool gets nothing out of this.

Underpinning the whole thing is the business case from the operator, as they still need to find the equivalent diesel cost to replace the vehicles. Zebra only covers the gap between diesel and EV.

So, in exactly the same way any normal business case would progress, the services need to be profitable enough to justify the investment. I suspect Hartlepool is not that.