(04 May 2021, 6:09 pm)ne14ne1 wrote It would’ve been yeah. Mind, they’d have had to find a lot more room for the increase in batteries needed to make it a full EV.All of the London buses that were converted by Vantage Power have been withdrawn and are not in service in London anymore.
If you search YouTube for ‘Vantage Power London Bus’ you should find videos of Gemini1’s and a President which were fitted with Vantage Power diesel-electric hybrid systems.
Apart from the 3 or 4 vehicles trialled Im not aware of any others that were done however.
Maybe it was too expensive or they didn’t have any uptake. Certainly weird watching/hearing an old Gemini1 and President pulling away almost silently. I quite liked the sound of the diesel suddenly starting back up. It almost sounded like it took a couple of turns for it to fire back up. Odd but kinda cool.
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