(11 Jan 2020, 11:05 pm)S813 FVK wrote A reply to the B5 refurbishment tweet:
https://twitter.com/keithhenson3/status/...43041?s=21
He ties himself to the company in his bio so I think we can assign a decent amount of credibility to it, paired up with the conversion of Lothian, EY and Reading E400s in the last couple of years or so.
Presumably the cost of converting is cheaper than battery renewal?
Now confirmed properly (though branded as a 'trial' for now), although it seems the OP has been a bit naughty in tweeting it in the first place!
https://twitter.com/martijngne/status/12...86465?s=21