(26 Jul 2020, 7:51 am)ne14ne1 wrote Cheers, I’ll have a read of that later.
I agree, it would be nice to have some new hybrids in the fleet, and a start-stop local service like the 56 or 21 would be ideal. The improvement to passenger experience alone would be great, not having the noisy diesel growling the whole time, especially when the bus is idling or moving at lower speeds.
I get they promote their Euro6 diesels as clean and green, but they’re still giving off some emissions. At least with modern hybrids there’ll be regular periods where they are emitting zero pollutants in our towns & cities, & reducing noise pullution too.
All about the upfront investment though I suppose.
I do think Hybrids should still have a big part to play in the future of all transport, we're still a while away for BEV or Hydrogen vehicles being able to do long routes that we have up here. It's a shame that there's not more funding to buy none BEV vehicles so they could upgrade the likes of the 56 to hybrids.